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Review by Satis Shroff: Live, Write, Breathe REVIEW: Live, Write, Breathe (Satis Shroff) Doris Dörrie: Leben, Schreiben, Atmen, Diogenes, Zürich 2019 The book introduces you to the Unbearable Lightness of Writing about whatever comes to your mind. Virginia Woolf and James Joyce did it and you do it too, namely, use your own power of associations and observation that you have experienced in the past. Doris Dörrie adds nothing new to what we already know in Creative Writing. A US author named Roberta Allen has put it aptly and profusely in her book ‘Fast Fiction: Creative Fiction in Five Minutes.’ You have five minutes to write a story about grudge. Another five to write a story about falling or a laugh. Go! She uses prompts and exercises to show you how to create short-short-stories in spontaneous bursts with 300 prompts. Roberta Allen’s book was published in 1997 by Story Press, Ohio. Whereas Allen lets her own students tell their stories, Dörrie choses to tell her tales from

15,000 Nepalese are fighting for Russia at the moment. They have been misled by middlemen in Kathmandu and elsewhere in Nepal. The Nepalese are given a to-week training and sent as a vanguard and are confronted by the first round of artillery and die. The clever Russian troops, who also have colonial allures, remain behind the Nepalese lines, whose lives are offered to test the concentration and firepower of the Ukrainians. The ethnic people of Siberia suffer the same fate as cannon fodder for the Ukrainian war machinery. According to Sky News ‘2000 men from Nepal have already recruited by Russia to fight in Ukraine.’ After a two-week training they are sent to the Front and never return. Russian mercenaries are promised salaries far above the average Russian soldier, whose allowance ranges from 70,000 to 100,000 thousand roubles (750–1,075 euros) but if you go to the front and don’t return, neither you nor your dependents have any money. There is no social insurance. Russia is not a

https://www.kobo.com/de/de/ebook/through-nepalese-eyes ‘Through Nepalese Eyes’ is about the journey of a young Nepalese woman to Germany to meet her brother, who lives with his German wife and daughter in an allemanic town named Freiburg. It is a travelogue written by a sensitive, modern British public-school educated man. He describes the two worlds: Asia and Europe and the people he meets. There is a touch of sadness when his sister returns to her home in the foothills of the Himalayas. It cries to be written because there are seldom books written by Nepalese writers about themselves. It’s always the casual foreign traveller, trekker or climber who writes about the people in the developing and least-developed countries of the so-called Third World. The likely readers are the increasing male and female tourists, trekkers, climbers from the whole world who make their way to the Himalayas, each seeking something indefinable, perhaps peace, tranquillity, spiritual experience or a muc