Soibam Rebika Devi

Soibam Rebika Devi (born 1976) is an Indian translator who is best known for translating the Tirukkural into Meitei.

Biography Soibam Rebika Devi was born in 1976 in Imphal, Manipur. She studied botany, obtaining her bachelor's degree in 1998 and master's degree in 2002 from the Manipur University. In 2004–2005, she pursued a ten-month diploma course in Tamil language at the Southern Regional Language Centre of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

In 2012, she completed the first ever translation of the Kural into Meitei, which she made in prose form and was published by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil, Chennai. It is considered the first ever translation of a Tamil work into the Meitei language. The translation was published by the Central Institute of Classical Tamil (CICT), Chennai in 2012. The translation was part of CICT's project of translating the Kural into multiple languages including Telugu, Kannada, Nepali, Punjabi and other Indian languages. The translation was officially released in Imphal in March 2014 by the governor of Manipur.

In November 2014, the CICT planned to recite the Meitei translation along with translations in 9 other languages to commemorate the launch of the institution's Telugu and Kannada translations of the Kural text.