Satis Shroff: Proud to be a Cosmopolitan German
Satis Shroff: Proud to be a Cosmopolitan German 10 Tuesday May 2016 My car is American, my wine is French, my salad is Mediterranean, my coffee is Brazilian. My films are from Hollywood, Bollywood, France and France, I drink Nepali tea from Ilam, and Darjeeling too. The shirt I wear is outsourced from Bangladesh, my electronics are from China, the numbers I used are Arabic, my letters Devnagari नेपाली देवनागरी and Latin. I don’t complain that my neighbours are from Kappel, Brescia, Homs or Lagos. I watch German TV, love the Badische cuisine, read the Badische Zeitung, write poems about the lovely Schwarzwald, sing German songs with my croonies from the men’s choir in Kappel, deliver lectures in English and German to my German students, listen to Nepali folksongs on my MP3, communicate with my Mom and sisters in Nepali over what’s app. I’ve pulled myself together and have paid my taxes regularly. I’m well integrated in the German society and can’t think of a better