Literature is not only texts and contexts: It is also the flavor of personality, spiced with the writer’s ideology and praxis. So, in a multilingual, multicultural country such as India, the canon of literature is rich in its regional flavor of the language as well as culture. In the case of drama, there is the added reach of performance as theory. In order to gear up a national perspective and create a body of national literature, the activity of translator of vernacular texts into various other regional languages, inter-regional and Intra-national, is necessary. What is not always appreciated in the act of translation is the loss of the spice of the author’s author ship. My contention is that the act of translating from the source language into English or any other regional language involves aesthetic and political compulsions. This paper is therefore an attempt to study the compounding aesthetic and political compouldion of translations of vijay Tendulkar’s Marathi play Kanyadaan.