so someone pointed out that there was a book of poetry from Rumi on Yusuf Khan's desk in ddba ep 5. and this means nothing bc tbh rumi is v popular. but their theory for it was that it was specifically bc Yusuf is researching the quote on Kamala's bangle, which is also by Rumi.
and that got me thinking. As of The Marvels, Kamala still doesn't know that the quote was put on the bangle by her great grandmother. She hadn't even figured out it was poetry.
between sharing accounts of Partition, explaining djinn to Bruno, and the Hulk Shalwar, Yusuf is very distinctly the Cultural Heritage person in the family. So ofc the burden of investigating the farsi poetry falls to him.
Seeing as they know nothing about the bangles except 1) strong, 2) unfathomably old and 3) has been to a lot of places; I like to think after reading biographies, historical records, poetry analyses across eras, Yusuf has to confront a terrifying idea:
Did Rumi plagiarize from the Quantum Bands?
