In this paper, I propose to look at translation from at least three perspectives: Translation as a personal enterprise, as a cultural enterprise with a social missionand and translation as cartographing social demography or translation as public enterprise. It is obvious that we obtain here translated texts that are movements in cultural description that shape our living. The paper discusses the cultural implications of a book titled Into the World of Kutiyattam published by Natanakairali in

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... ala, and explores the articulation of public space where translation takes place in a significant way, in particular, Mananchira Square in Calicut city. It is imperative to recognize these sites as cultural texts if we are to arrive at a description of the cultural matrix that we help to translate every instant. Rather than limit the idea of translation, this paper proposes to extend and push the implications of the term to different sites in my cultural experience.