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Darjeeling Limited: A Journey to India and Within (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)

Posted in 746, Champs Elysees, Darjeeling, Family Therapy, Leonard Cohen, Maya, Oh, Rudyard Kipling's times, absurd situations, chaotic, dry Brit humour, family conflicts, gaudy India, homage to India, ignored children, illusion, inner peace, looking for mom in Himalayas, meditating mother, modern India, old melodies, seventies, sixties, snakes and all, spititual, within, without on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »

 Darjeeling Limited: A Journey to India and Within (Satis Shroff)
Film review: USA 2007, Director: Wes Anderson.
 
Darjeeling Limited is a road movie with three different protagonists, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman, who we are told are brothers. One looks like a Hawk-nosed Italian (Adrien Brody) with fine features and a heavily pregnant wife he’s [...]

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Review by Satis Shroff, Freiburg:YAKS & YETIS

Posted in Bhutan, Darjeeling, Himalayan literature, Kalimpong, Ladakh, Man-of-Letters, Nepalese literature, Sikkim, Zanskar, translations, yaks, yetis on May 25, 2007 | No Comments »

Grünfelder, Alice (Editor), Himalaya: Menschen und Mythen, Zürich Unionsverlag, 314 pages, EURO 19, 80 (ISBN 3-293-00298-6).
Alice Grünfelder has studied Sinology and German literature, lived two years in China and works in the publishing branch in Berlin. This book is comparable to a bouquet of the choicest Himalayan flowers picked by the editor in a [...]

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