We, readers of Arabic, know that the book "Kalila and Dimna" is from Indian literature, and that "Scheherazade" and the novel "One Thousand and One Nights" borrowed some of its nights from India via the Persian language, and that the anecdotes that we heard in our childhood are not devoid of an Indian touch. We are not surprised that they seeped into us from countries whose numbers we knew and whose lights we knew, and which we knew were the source of "Muhannad" and "Gingerbread," and we imagine that genius The Indian woman who inspired the stories of "One Thousand and One Nights" to Scheherazade still remains in her era as it was decades ago.
The truest thing that can be said about these twenty stories is that - with mastery of art - they have succeeded in depicting the human soul and the Indian environment. It gives an honest picture of the reality in India.