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Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): Fire in the Blood

Posted in 200 years of loyalty, 24 years, 746, absurd situations, aeronautics, aerospace, Airbus 340-600, Airbus 380, Aksobhya, All Seeing Eyes, Allemanic Freiburg, Alp World, Alps, Amitabha, Amogasiddhi, amphetamines, Angst, Anne Hathaway, art, artist, artists, association, Atlantic shore, augsburg, Auschwitz, özim, Bagmati river, bahun, Basel Landschaftlicher Natur, beer, Beijing, beliefs, berglieder, Bertold Brecht, Bhaktapur (Bhadgaon), Bhutan, big money, bird watching in Switzerland, black and white photos, Black Forest, blackforest, Blogroll, Boeing's Dreamliner, Bollywood lyrics, Bong-thing shaman, books, botanical delights, botanical extracts, British, British Army, bruce dobler, buchenbach, Buddhist monk, buhari, candid confessions, canoe, catmandu, Champs Elysees, chaotic, Charente river, chicks, China, Chovar Gorge, Christian lives, Code of Hippocrates, complacent, contrasts, cosmopolitan, cosmos, cottage garden, creative writing, culture, Dalai Lama, Darjeeling, despite 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Creative Writing Critique (Satis Shroff): FIRE IN THE BLOOD Review: Irene Nemirovsky Fire in the Blood, Vintage Books, London 2008, 153 pages, 7,99 Sterling Pounds (ISBN: 978-0-099-51609-5) Denise Epstein was 13 when her mother Irene Nemirovsky was deported to Auschwitz, where she eventually died in 1942. The daughter is now an octogenarian and was instrumental [...]

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Commentary: German Tango versus Argentinian Tango (Satis Shroff, Freiburg-Kappel)

Posted in diaspora, Miteinander, Peace, Religion, togetherness on June 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Modern German youth: chic, fantasy,well-travelled, well-informed, togetherness, tolerant and peace and fun-loving. Commentary: Waltz versus Tango (Satis Shroff, Freiburg-Kappel)   Stop the press. Germany, this historically disciplined and merciless soccer nation, that shot a penalty to the sky during a world championship since 1974, has overrun England with 4:1. Podolski, even though born in Poland, [...]

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Dalai Lama’s Realpolitik: A Policy of Appeasement (Satis Shroff)

Posted in Beijing, China, Dalai Lama, Han-Chinese, Lhasa, Miteinander, Peace, respect, Tibet, Tibetans, togetherness, tolerance, Uncategorized, wisdom, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Commentary on Tibet: Dalai Lama’s Realpolitik: A Policy of Appeasement (Satis Shroff)   The Chinese poet Dong Guanfu writes in his blog: “We cannot win the heart of the Tibetans if we only develop their economy. If we cannot manage to understand this, then many other conflicts will follow. There’s no denying that one of [...]

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Commentary: Gold Medals versus Human Rights (Satis Shroff)

Posted in Beijing, China, Games, human rights, Lhasa, Miteinander, monks, Peace, students, Tibet, togetherness, tolerance on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 Commentary on Tibet:   Gold Medals versus Human Rights (Satis Shroff)   The Dalai Lama has threatened to resign as the political leader of the Tibetans in Tibet and the diaspora (USA, India, Nepal and Switzerland), but the protests within Tibet has been rising although Tibet has been hermetically sealed for foreign journalists, and the [...]

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On This Spot a Lotus Bloomed and Became the Heart of the World

Posted in All Seeing Eyes, Buddhist monk, Hindus & Buddhists, Kathmandu Valley, Khampa fighter, monkeys & yeti, Nepalese farmers, Peace, religious Miteinander, Rhesus monkeys, stupas & chaityas, Swayambhu, tranquillity on May 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

On This Spot a Lotus Bloomed  (Satis Shroff)   Nepalese men and women work in the fields. They use the traditional bullocks and buffaloes that are seen in the villages of Southeast Asia.   They dig the fields manually. The women work beside the men, with babies strapped to their backs. Long wooden hoes are [...]

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