| Zeitgeistlyrik: Sleep, my Lovely (Satis Shroff) |
| Poem by Satis posted on 2010-08-06 Comments(0) |
Sleep, my Lovely (Satis Shroff)
I found you
The way I lost you,
Like a wandering cloud,
On a full moon night.
You were chatting animatedly
With another female medical student.
I saw you,
You saw me.
Was mesmerised
By the sight of you.
You kept on talking
Looked again
Then you smiled
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| Commentary: German Waltz versus Argentinian Tango |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-06-29 Comments(0) |
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, scored aga
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| Commentary: Lovely Lena in European Orbit |
| Article by satis posted on 2010-05-31 Comments(0) |
Commentary:
Lena Brings the Promethean Fire (Satis Shroff)
Subtitle: Lovely Lena in European Orbit (Satis Shroff)
It was a long time ago that Nicole sang her ‘Ein bisschen Frieden’ at the Eurovision Song but now Lena Mayer-Landrut has put Germany back on the charts again. We Germans are usually
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| Creative Writing Critique: The Invention of Life |
| Article by satis posted on 2010-05-11 Comments(0) |
Creative Writing Critique: Satis Shroff
Ortheil, Hanns-Josef Die Erfindung des Lebens, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, 590 pages,ISBN 978-3-630-87296-4.
Kirchzarten, a scenic Schwarzwald town, lies in the heart of the Dreisam Valley from where you can take the train to Titisee and the Black Fore
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| Mark Twain: The Writer With the Texan Drawl |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-05-04 Comments(0) |
MARK TWAIN: The Man With the Texas Drawl (Satis Shroff
‘Mark Twain’s pith and wit are phenomenal in American literature,’ says Michael Shelden in his book Mark Twain: Man in White(Random House 522pp.,$30). The author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a man named Samuel Langhorne Clemens and h
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| Salomon: the Pragmatic Realo |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-04-27 Comments(0) |
Salomon: the Pragmatic Realo (Satis Shroff)
Freiburg is a provincial town in the Black Forest and lies in the vicinity of France and Switzerland. We locals call this three country triangle ‘the Regio,’ which is rich in culture and tradition, and there’s a lot of cooperation between the three coun
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| The Creative Voice of Poetry |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-04-02 Comments(0) |
The Creative Voice of Poetry (Satis Shroff)
Hugo Wolf was 18 years old when he caught syphilis. He died on February 22,1903 in penury. What has remained are his Lieder (songs) and we haven’t forgotten them till today. ‘Everything in this small, stout guy is not normal.’ Said a contemporary, meani
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| Medical Ethnology II: Interplast (Satis Shroff) |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-03-27 Comments(0) |
Medical Ethnology II: Helping the Nepalese to Help Themselves (Satis Shroff)
Christa Drigalla is an amiable German lady, a hospital manager who worked at the Diakonie hospital in Freiburg (South-west Germany), where she did Nursing Management. Sometime back, this author had the opportunity of goi
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| Medical Ethnology I: Little Sushma's Story (Satis Shroff) |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-03-27 Comments(0) |
Medical Ethnology I: Little Sushma’s Story (Satis Shroff)
The case history of a small girl named Sushma is typical for Nepal. Sushma was 6 years old when she was playing near an open fire, and wriggled into the fire with her feet and received third degree burns on her feet and right leg. All th
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| The Gesture of a Goddess (Satis Shroff) |
| Article by Satis posted on 2010-03-24 Comments(0) |
The Gesture of a Living Goddess (Satis Shroff)
Once upon a time there was a demon named Gurumapa was buried in the grounds of the Tudikhel in Catmandu. The legend also mentions that Gurumapa comes and steals children, much like the Pied Piper of Hameln who wasn’t paid the promised sum by the mayo
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