Meet Ebenezer Scrooge

A Tribute to Charles Dickens


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