Synopsis The book addresses aspects relating to theory and practice of translation studies. It delves into issues like translation culture and translating hybrid language texts, identity affirmation/appropriation in translation, the translation scenario in multilingual and monolingual nations, the author as translator and translation of children's literature. The papers explore the translation situation in India and try to establish principles based on pragmatics. Examining translated texts and quoting scholarly comments on translation, they highlight important aspects like the impact of translation being that of shaping the new literary contours of the recipient language as the politics and practices of translation impacts on the language and knowledge systems and culture itself, as in India.