FREIBURGER ZEITGEISTLITERATURE (Satis Shroff)

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : Zeitgeistlyrik: Gorkhaland Blues (Satis Shroff) : Zeitgeistlyrik:  GORKHALAND BLUES (Satis Shroff) Early in the misty morning monsoon morning A Gorkhali meets a Bengali Below the st...

Zeitgeistlyrik:  GORKHALAND BLUES (Satis Shroff) Early in the misty morning monsoon morning A Gorkhali meets a Bengali Below the statue of Bhanubhakta Acharya, At Darjeeling’s Chowrasta. The Bengali doesn’t like the  Adi Kavi The prime poet of the Gorkhalis there. Why do you have your poet here, Why not also Tagore? The Gorkhali says,’ Tagore belongs to Shantiniketan.’ East Bengal belonged to ancient Bengal. But it turned into East Bengal overnight in 1947. You Bengalis had nothing in common with the Muslims of East Pakistan. Freedom from Pakistan let to Bangladesh. We in the hills of Darjeeling, Want freedom from Bengal. We want our own Gorkhaland. ‘But Gorkhaland lies in Bengal, ‘ says the Bengali. What do you have in common with us Gorkhalis? The Bengali replies: ‘We have the same religion.’ Ah, but nothing else. You eat fish, we eat dal-bhat-shikar. We fought for our Nepali language. It has been recognised as one of the...

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : O, Kanchenzonga: Gorkhaland for Gorkhalis (Satis S... : Darjeeling sahar, battiko lahar, hernama dherai ramailo Memoir: O, Kanchenzonga: Gorkhaland for Gorkhalis (Satis Shroff) ...

Darjeeling sahar, battiko lahar, hernama dherai ramailo Memoir: O, Kanchenzonga: Gorkhaland for Gorkhalis (Satis Shroff) A splash of the crimson rays of the sun appeared on the tip of the 8598m Kanchenjunga Range. Then it turned into orange and was gradually bathed in a yellowish tint, becoming extremely bright. You could discern the chirping of the Himalayan birds in the surrounding bushes and trees, amidst the clicking of cameras. I was on Tiger Hill. But my thoughts were elsewhere. I was thinking about Kanchenjunga, my Hausberg as we are wont to call it in Germany, and the former memories of my school-days in the foothills of the Himalayas. These mountains had moulded and shaped me to overcome odds, like other thousands of other Gorkhalis, Nepalese, Lepchas, Bhutanese, Tibetans and Indians, from both sides of the Himalayas. I have watched the Kanchenjunga ever since I was a child in its different moods and seasonal changes. Cloud-watching over the Kanchenjunga w...

Satis Shroff's ZEITGEIST LITERATURE : The Charms of Spoken English (Satis Shroff) : THE CHARMS OF SPOKEN ENGLISH (Satis Shroff) Whether you hear Radio Nepal, the BBC, CNN or the Voice of America, there's no suc...