Oliver Twist Play

What is it about Charles Dickens’s A क्रिस्मस Carol that propels so many readers, annually, to reread the “ghost story of Christmas” and watch its many film and play productions? What is the fascination? Did people not “get it” the first time, या fifth time, या twentieth time? या is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old फ्रेंड्स with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; फ्रेंड्स like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of क्रिस्मस past, present, and future, and, of course, Ebenezer Scrooge. Are people not...

A Tribute to Charles Dickens


Way back in the seventies, we had no advanced technology, no वीडियो easily available, and no Internet. Yet we had what no video या movie can impart. The power of the written word.
My father was an avid reader, and to form the पढ़ना habit in us he would take us, every Saturday morning to the Pak-American book खरीडिए on the Elphiniston सड़क, स्ट्रीट (now Zebunnissa street) and let us choose whatever पुस्तकें we fancied. Today I thank Allah for blessing us with such a wonderful father.
I did not watch many of the great Victorian’s फिल्में in my childhood , but I could describe,...