If Hamlet, one in all Shakespeare’s nice tragic heroes, stated of guy, ‘What a bit of labor is a guy, how noble in cause, how endless in faculties,…- And but, to me, what's this quintessence of airborne dirt and dust? guy delights no longer me-no, nor lady neither,’ we've, after approximately 4 centuries, G.A.Kulkarni, an exceptional brief tale author in Marathi, to give the same portrait of mankind. To G.A., humans, quintessentially made of airborne dirt and dust, appear to be mere ‘shadows within the desert,’ and for this reason glance so unsubstantial. And notwithstanding their arms likely subscribe to jointly, their shadows are easily extending unto the grave past. G.A.Kulkarni attempts to stipulate a picture of a fancy community of unfathomable future in his tales to convey out the uncertainty and absurdity in human lifestyles that lies beneath the tragic strength of human trouble. during this experience, G.A.’s worldview has affinity not just with the nice tragic poets of historical Greece but in addition the Absurd playwrights and Existentialist thinkers of the twentieth century. Following the 1st quantity A trip eternally (2010), 13 extra brief tale masterpieces by way of G.A.Kulkarni are provided in English translation in Shadows within the wilderness. the gathering illustrates just about all different types of brief fiction through the Sahitya Akademi Award profitable writer: reasonable tales rooted within the Indian soil (Kasaab : The Butcher, Kavathe:Wood Apples, Chandrawal : The Dancing Pigeon), excellent yet epiphanic stories- a kind remarkable within the background of brief tale shape at international Literature point- (The Slave, The Messenger, Vidooshak: The Fool), fictional remodeling and reinterpretation of Indian and western myths in Mukti: Deliverance and Yaatrik: The Crusader respectively in addition to metaphorical/symbolic stories of revelation seriously weighted down with a number of meanings like Bali: sufferer of Sacrifice?, Soyare:Kinsmen, and Anaamik: Anonymous.