FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

HAUNTING HINDUKUSH: War & Pace (Satis Shroff) The King Who Was Expelled (Satis Shroff) King Amanullah returned Ecstatic, From a tour to Europe And the Near East. He ordered the modernization Of Afghanistan, Along the lines Of Kemal in Turkey. His Majesty said: 'I want monogamy, European clothing, Abolition of women's veils.' The people rejoiced In the streets of Kabul. The Mullahs revolted. The king was expelled. That was 1928. * * * They Shot the King (Satis Shroff) General Nadir Shah Became the King of Afghanistan, With a little help, From his British friends. He brought reforms. They shot him in 1933. * * * Pakhtunistan Dreams (Satis Shroff) Mohammed Zahir became The next king of Afghanistan. 'I have a dream Of a Pakhtunistan, A bigger country which can rule The Pathans in Western Pakistan. To the west of the river Indus.' The Pakistanis weren't amused, And politely refused it. * * * THE HINDUKUSH (Satis Shroff) It's Volkstrauertag Deat

Nirmala: Between Terror & Ecstasy by Satis Shroff

FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff): GLOBAL POETS AND WRITERS GROWING: SATIS SHROFF : Global Poets & Writers Create Festivals and Publications By Satis Shroff National literature no longer means very much, the age of wor...

AUTHOR BRAND Satis Shroff Brief Bio: Satis Shroff is a German writer & poet of Nepalese descent, based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) and has studied Zoology and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Sciences in Germany and Creative Writing in Freiburg and the United Kingdom. The German media describes him as a ‘Mittler zwischen Kulturen,’ that is, a mediator between western and eastern cultures. Since literature is one of the most important means of cross-cultural learning, he is dedicated to promoting and creating awareness for Creative Writing and transcultural togetherness in his writings, and in preserving an attitude of Miteinander (togetherness) in this world. He lectures in Basle (Switzerland) and in Freiburg (Germany). Blog addresses: https://www.eventyas.com/DE/Freiburg/140662769336590/MY-SCHWARZWALD-DIARY---Satis-Shroff www. https://satisshroff.medium.com/ www.satisshroffblog.wordpress.com www. https://www.boloji.com/writers/1338/satis http://www.spanglef

the fish-tailed one (satisshroff, freiburg) your eyes never tire of watching the different moods of the fish-tailed one in pokhara. at dawn, noon and dusk. this majestic peak, this sacred mountainof the gurung folk, who live below it and revere this towering peak.  no foreign boots are allowed to trample this path, and climb to the peak. climbers have respected this wish of the gurung folk. but the khumbu sherpas, who are lured by dollars, offer incense sticks and tormas, to please, bribe and pacify the gods. tourism dictates and the locals follow. enabling global climbers to trudge over sacred mountains. no, these moneyed people don't worship the mountains, they worship their egos. climbing is a conversation piece: look I climbed everest, it's on youtube and facebook. i made it to the top of the world. ICH-ICH-ICH. I did it. others who weren't so lucky, will turn up in a moraine, years later as stiff corpses.

Satis Shroff is a Nepalese writer who writes in English since 1972. Shroff is a lecturer of creative writing, as well as a long-standing journalist and writer who started his writing career in 1972 with The Rising Nepal, a daily from Kathmandu. He is also a lecturer at the Akademie für medizinische Berufe (Uniklinik Freiburg), VHS-Freiburg and VHS-Dreisamtal in Kirchzarten. He writes fiction and non-fiction since his days in Kathmandu as a journalist in 1972. He wrote a column Science Spot on the wildlife conservation, mountaineering, cultural themes as well as literature, development and tourism. He also wrote commentaries for the External Service of Radio Nepal, in addition to freelancing for The Christian Science Monitor and other newspapers in the USA in the early seventies. He was born in Nepal and did his schooling in a British Public School in Darjeeling. He went to Kathmandu, Nepal for further studies and did his Intermediate in Science (ISc) from Amrit Science College an

LIFE IS A COSMIC DANCE (Satis Shroff) My soul is a passionate dancer. I hear music where ever I am, Whatever I do. I hear the lively rhythm beckoning me to dance. Sometimes it’s violins and Vienna waltz. At other times a fiery salsa. A Punjabi bhangra or a slow fox. Life is a cosmic dance. With its kampfmuster And its own choreography. We have people around us. We look at each other, Oblivious of the others. Mesmerised, Drawn together by an invisible force. The Flamenco guitarist wails, ‘Life is an apple: Pluck it, Relish it, And throw it away.’

Humans-Time-Earth-Living Environment Freiburg-Kappel (Satis Shroff) New sculptures along the theme path in Kappler Valley. This time Satis Shroff introduces you the double sculpture ‘Bios’ created by Thomas Rees, which shows the Wonder of Life, its creative dynamics and how wonderful it is to be living here. BIOS: the Wonder of Life Where does the word ‘bios’ come from, you might ask. It’s an artificial word that depicts a basic programme that is a prerequisite in a computer so that it can communicate, and so to say, come to life. Complex systems are made possible by bios. On the other hand, the olde Greek word ßioc (bios) means life. All living beings have a basic life structure, namely the DNA, which is also a form of programming. A virus can overtake a host’s DNA and change the sequence through gene action and manipulation at the genetic level, as in the case of covid-19. The Double Helix , discovered by Crick and Watson, is a spiral biological store-room with lots of inform

Book Review By Satis Shroff: Friedrich Holderlin’s Selected Poetry translated by David Constantine REVIEW By Satis Shroff Friedrich Holderlin’s Selected Poetry translated by David Constantine. The Swabian poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) was born in Lauffen upon the Neckar on the 20th of March 250 years ago. He was a German poet and philosopher and was influenced by Hegel and Schelling, and was also an important thinker of German idealism. The strange and beautiful language of Friedrich Holderlin’s late poemshas been recreated by David Constantine in remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantine’s Hölderlin Selected Poems (1990/1996) have been widely praised, containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hölderlin’s Sophocles (2001). Here the English translator has tried to create an equivalent English for Hölderlin’s extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays. It might be mentioned that Constantine won the Europ

  Schwarzwaldlyrik: ODE TO THE BLACK FOREST (Satis Shroff)         ALPINE GRATITUDE (Satis Shroff)   The hamlets are scattered, Tucked away in the side valleys and spurs Of the Black Forest, Which was once dark and foreboding. A forest that once conjoured myths, legends And fairy tales.   Under the hay and homesteads, You find men and mice, Good natured maids and children, Healthy and happy cows, goats, Sheep and swines. The Schwarzwald farmers paid low taxes, For Nature punished them enough. They couldn't get rich on the craggy soil, The high elevation and the long, raw winter.   Yet the Black Forest forced the soil, To yield millet in Summer, Wheat and barley, Buried beneath a thick mantle of snow.   Ah, it's already past the month of October, The young calves are in the stalls, After a colourful, traditional walk From the higher alpine meadows. There's corn in the chamber, Feed for the animals in the barns.   Around Freiburg the apple trees, Are laden heavily with apples