India, Oct. 31 -- Originally published in Marathi as Parivrajak in 2004, The Seekers, a collection of five short stories by Gautamiputra Kamble and translated by Sirius J Libeiro, questions social traditions. These stories are about searching - for words, people, histories, knowledge and freedom.

The Story of a Story, which begins the book, has the narrator going in search of characters whose stories he can write with words that have never been used. In Parivrajak, the titular story, Anisha is in search of "a two-legged person" when she comes across Naiser, who is in search of a living rock. In Shilpasan, two friends look for a statue in the middle of a desert while in Tales of Viroopnagar, multiple stories convey the characters' unexpla...