The Woman Who Understood Dostoyevsky (Satis Shroff)

(The author in Berlin’s War Memorials..)   SVETLANA GEIER: The Woman Who Understood Dostoyevsky (Satis Shroff)   Svetlana Michailowna Iwanowa was born in 1923 in Kiew. She came to Germany in 1943 with her mother and was awarded an Alexander von Humbolt scholarship. She did German studies and Comparative Language Sciences at the University of [...]

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Freiburg Green City Honours Writer Satis Shroff

“One day, a tall and burly, unshaven Albanian man came to the social office and took us as prisoners. He had a big plastic bag with a canister of petrol and a gun in his hand and said, “If you don’t do what I say I’ll blow you all up.” We were terrified. He was a father who’s daughter had been taken away by the social department because he’d been maltreating her. Whew! That was a traumatic experience. I thought my life was going to end there,” said Satis Shroff.

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Royal Privileges in the Shadow of the Himalayas (Satis Shroff)

Dear Readers, The King has been ousted in Nepal, as you know, but the Royal Family still enjoys benefits from the government and I thought Prakash Bom’s article in The American Chronicle worth reading to have an idea of what other Nepalese think about the new government comprising the pro-China Maoists and pro-India Nepalese Congress [...]

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North Sea Travel: Longing for Langeoog (Satis Shroff)

  LONGING FOR LANGEOOG (Satis Shroff)   Thomas, a burly, bearded botanist turned IT-specialist in Basle, and I decided to make a Herrnnachmittag out of a sunny day, despite the clouds in the vast horizon of the North Sea Isle of Langeoog, where we were spending our holidays with our near and dear ones. There [...]

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

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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