Status Updates From Sahela Re: A Novel

So I get it. all the history of the English Raj and Tawaif culture before independence has great significance in honing Hindustani classical music. i mean, who would have thought? when you always consider classical music to be the domain of pandits and ustads, a lot of crucial facts are missing. Hiramandi shown by SLB is only the tip of the iceberg from where this book stands

I thought this was fiction but i'm met with historical facts on every page? in an epistolary novel? So already there's not much character development and on top of that you're giving a huge load of history (which might be interesting if not for the textbook way it's being told). idk! here's a person ready to know a bit more about Hindustani classical music but the text keeps coming in the way. whats the focus?

Maybe it's because of the translation but I'm not able to connect to any of the characters and it doesn't help that it's in an epistolary format. too early to say much...