1/1/22: 21 pages in. This book is apparently a classic of Urdu literature, and at the moment I’m waiting to get engaged in it. The writing style is the first thing I’m noticing, though I’m reading the English translation. Kind of floating and mystical. I hear the book is a bit like Cloud Atlas with a bunch of stories over a very long time, and right now we are in the earlier story only around the time of Buddha. Kind of an interesting start.