EVERYTHING'S CONNECTED: SATIS SHROFF

EVERYTHING’S CONNECTED: essays, poems, travels, people & reviews (Satis Shroff)

WRITTEN over three decades, ‘Everything’s Connected’  by Satis Shroff is a poetic collection of writings about the Schwarzwald where he lives, the North Sea where he spends the winter, the city of canals Venice that he loves, the Migration Blues has that moves people in Europe, his former Heimat the Himalayas, the fearless Gurkhas and the undaunted Sherpas and ethnomedicine. His travels, people he has encountered and reviews.

Satis Shroff follows a self-reflective journey through Nepal’s catastrophic tectonic earthquake, the monsoon, the seasons in his Heimat Schwarzwald, the beauty and tragedy of the Himalayas and Alps, illness and recovery, love and separation. The verses depict the poet’s inner voice as he embraces his cultural diversity in South Asia and Europe and his discovery of three languages and the worlds they unravel.

The author began writing early in 1972 when he was in college in Kathmandu. After his B Sc he worked as a Science and English Teacher and then joined a Kathmandu daily called The Rising Nepal. Although he came to Europe for further studies, he has been a writer all along. He has worked as a medical lecturer in Freiburg and Basle (Switzerland) and has facilitated Creative Writing at the local university. He speaks fluent English, Nepali and German. His poems and prose have been featured in multiple print (books, journals, anthologies) and e-publications.

 Articles written by Satis Shroff and published in The Rising Nepal, Kathmandu on the country’s wildlife conservation, its flora and fauna, tiger and rhinoceros telemetry projects in the Chitwan National Park, butterflies, the rodent menace and monkey research.

Books & Publications by Satis Shroff : http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/satisle

MY KATHMANDU DAYS:

1.      A Flight to the Himalayas

2.      European Notebook: Better Active Today, than Radioactive Tomorrow

3.      Man in the Biosphere

4.      The Blame’s on Us

5.      The Wildlife Situation in Nepal

6.      Wildlife Conservation in Nepal

7.      Wildlife: Everybody’s Business

8.      Wildlife and the Amendment Bill

9.      Wildlife and New Species

10.  The Year of the Tiger

11.   Panther tigris: the Nepalese Tiger

12.  Tiger Ecology in Nepal

13.  Is the Jawlakhel Zoo Sick?

14.  The Rodent Menace in Nepal

15.  Is the Black Buck Extinct in Nepal?

16.  Nepal: the Butterfly Hunter’s Paradise

17.  Butterfly Bonanza in Nepal

18.  The Migration of Birds

19.  From Forensic Lab to Burg Bugging

20.  ‘Catching ‘em Alive! Article on Tiger Ecology in Chitwan

21.  Saving the Endangered Species

22.  Monkey Research in Nepal

23.  The One-Horned Rhino of Nepal

24.  Wildlife Conservation in Nepal

25.  Langtang Must Not Die

26.  The Himalayas of Nepal

27.  And Now Pollution in the Himalayas

28.  Seismo-tectonics in Nepal

29.  Seismo Shocks

30.  Alpine Tourism: A Blessing or Nightmare?

31.  The Fossils of Nepal

32.  Fossil Hunting in Nepal

33.  Sermons in Stones

34.  The Minerals of Nepal

35.  Petroleum and Nepal

36.  Exploitation Not Exploration

37.  The Forests of Nepal

38.  Plant Diseases in Nepal

39.  The Ancestors of the Naked Ape

40.  Prague: The City of a Hundred Towers

41.  The Hidden Valley and Back

42.  The Art of Acupuncture

43.  Hope for the Blind: Eye Hospital

44.  Medical Ethics, Quo vadis?

45.  Freaks, Hippies and Cannabis

46.  On This Spot a Lotus Bloomed

47.  Kthmandu Valley: Legend and Science

48.  Nepal Preserves Her Temples and Monuments

49.  The Bustle of Basantapur

50.  The Charms of Ranipauwa

51.  The Charms of Godavari

52.  Back to the Village National Campaign

53.  Catherine Blair: An American Architect With a Difference

54.  From the Zoo to the Weed Menace

55.  The Gemstones of Nepal

56.  The Great One-Horned Rhino

57.  Nepal: the Land of the Yeti (Neplaese Perspective)

58.  Yeti: the Long Lost Ancestor?

59.  A Yeti Sighted 40 Metres Away: no hallucination- R. Zoller

60.  Believe It Or Not? (editorial by Satis Shroff)

61.  The Role of Youth in the Development of a Nation

62.  Democracy Day and Youth

63.  Journalist at Large

64.  Science Scenario in Nepal

65.  Science Spot: Jovian Speculation

66.  Kohoutek: the Serpant in the Sky

67.  Gene Mutation

68.  A Revolution in Reverse

69.  The Awesome Laser

70.  The Moon Rocks

71.  Sex and Chromosomes

72.  The Return of the Ice Age?

73.  The Fantastic Mesozoic Dinosaurs

74.  The Creature from the Cretaceous

75.  Of Scents and Sounds

76.  Vitamin C and All That

77.  The Disarmament Deadlock

78.  Détente in Outer Space

79.  WRITINGS FROM EUROPE:  Destination Freiburg

80.  The Charms of Spoken English

81.  The Charms of Written English

82.  Traveller’s Tales

83.  Sniffing Around at the World’s Biggest Book Fair

84.   A Visit to the German Pharmacy Museum in Heidelberg

85.  Travelogue: A Weekend in Überlingen

86.  Switzerland: Inside the Rhone Glacier

87.  The Swiss Fasnet in Basle

88.  The Royal Visit in the German Media

89.  At the Godesberger Redoute

90.  Nepal and its Hope for the Future

91.  Nepal: ‘It’s so Fascinating’ (on Ludmilla Tüting)

92.  Nepal’s Bid for Peace

93.  GORKHALAND REVISITED

94.  Gorkhaland Dreams in Darjeeling: A Storm in a Teacup?

95.  Eine Reise nach Gorkhaland

96.  STAUFEN: Where Doctor Faustus once Lived

97.  Toni Hagen: 14,000 km on foot in Nepal

98.  BERLIN: So this is Berlin

99.  IMPRESSIONS FROM ITALY

100.                     A Journey to Northern Italy

101.                     BAVARIA: Landluft and Tyroler Hats

102.                     GERMANY: Which Witch in Germany?