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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GAINEY: A Himalayan Minstrel’s Songs of Love & Sorrow (Satis Shroff)

(c) Art & Nepali poem by satisshroff The way was long, the wind cold The minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek and tresses grey Seemed to have known a better day (Sir Walter Scott in ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’) Gainey: A Minstrel’s Songs of Love and Sorrow (Satis Shroff) Go away, [...]

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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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