Stories from India

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 im...