Today, translation in India, is a huge creative industry, that puts to practiceall kinds of lexical conversions across languages and media. However, thetransformation or re-production of a text from a source language to anytarget language can be of various kinds, literal or idiomatic, direct oressential and there can be no absolute principle to call one good or bad.However, in this whole process, what is most debated is thepresence/absence, in-/visibility questions of the translator as anartist/author. Thus, this paper attempts to undertake brief research into thevarious kinds of translations and related theories that often contradict eachother so as to trivialize or prioritize the presence of a translator; with thesupport of some observations around common examples of translationsand the anomalies and perfections they achieve. The paper therebyattempts to open up some common questions around translation as acreative activity and how the translator is lost and found in it. Keywords: translation, strategies, untranslatability, lexical, idiomatic.