What is it about Charles Dickens’s A 크리스마스 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, 또는 fifth time, 또는 twentieth time? 또는 is it, simply, that people are yearly drawn to old 프렌즈 with whom they have “grown up”, and who have witnessed their “growing up”; 프렌즈 like Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim, old Fezziwig, the ghosts of 크리스마스 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 비디오 easily available, and no Internet. Yet we had what no video 또는 movie can impart. The power of the written word.
My father was an avid reader, and to form the 읽기 habit in us he would take us, every Saturday morning to the Pak-American book 샵 on the Elphiniston 거리 (now Zebunnissa street) and let us choose whatever 책 we fancied. Today I thank Allah for blessing us with such a wonderful father.
I did not watch many of the great Victorian’s 영화 in my childhood , but I could describe,...