Tag: Enid Blyton

  • International Romani Day 2021

    International Romani Day 2021

    Gypsies somehow always captured my fancy maybe from the gypsy dances we learnt at school, with bright colourful skirts and scarves. Not to mention the reference to gypsies by English storytellers like Enid Blyton and Agatha Christie.   Then one day I came across this day dedicated to the gypsies, The world Gypsy day. I…

  • Who changed me…

    My story by Kamala Das has a statement, “ask the books that I read why change. Ask the authors dead and alive who communicated with me and gave me the courage to be myself.” … Did they? I do not know, I was brought up by parents and grandparents who were voracious readers, membership to…

  • Awaiting Yogi-Ta

    Somewhere in the deep archives of memory there is a story about a very flamboyant old sister who got attention at the cost of her younger one. it never occurred to me that sandwiched between a first born star older sister and a younger brother my  heroine I do not remember her name but lets…