FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff):  On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles (Satis Shroff) On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles By Satis Shroff Foto courtesy: pixaby Dr. Johann Faust, the man who sold his soul to the Devil. A mythical figure? Certainly not. I went to the pretty town of Staufen via Bad Krvzingen from Freiburg. From the distance you can see the ruins of a castle looming above the vineyards on a hill. In the town below is a Gasthaus called Zum Lvwen (To the Lion). The tavern has a fresco on the wall by Prof. Fritz Geiges on the front wall depicting the Devil ' Mephistopheles in the process of breaking the neck of a broken down Dr. Faustus. Below the fresco is a wonderful calligraphic scripture with the words: In anno 1539 in Leuen-to-Staufen Dr Faustus, an astounding nigromantic, died miserably as a legend says, at the hands of the highest Devil named Mephistopheles, whom he called his brother-in-law as long as he lived, after the Pact whi

The Kashmir Issue: Indo-Pak Sabre-rattling (Satis Shroff)   Pakistan celebrates Independence Day amid Kashmir crisis reported CNN recently.  Pakistan is prepared to "fight to the end" over Kashmir if necessary, Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Wednesday during a speech from the Pakistani-controlled part of disputed Jammu and Kashmir. PM Khan, who was in Kashmir to mark Pakistan's independence day, accused India of trying to marginalise and radicalise the region's Muslims. He also called New Delhi's move to strip Indian-controlled Kashmir of its autonomy a "strategic blunder" by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Khan's address comes a week after India's parliament deliberately voted to reclassify the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir  as a union territory, allowing New Delhi greater authority over the country's only Muslim-majority region. Tension is increasing between India and Pakistan ober the eternal Kashmir issue.