Tag: travel
member name: Satis Shroff
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February 18, 2007 02:50 PM EST --
NIRMALA: Between Terror and Ecstasy (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
People were out in the streets of Bremen,
A town in Germany,
Candles in their hands,
Some murmuring prayers,
Some . . .
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January 31, 2007 11:58 AM EST --
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears.
(Romeo and Julia: Shakespeare)
GROW WITH LOVE (Satis Shroff)
Love yourself . . .
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February 12, 2007 05:28 AM EST --
Banishing Winter in Germany (Satis Shroff)
It was 8 am on a snowy Monday morning. There were hundreds of motley clad and coloured spectators stomping their cold feet, all waiting for . . .
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February 07, 2007 03:34 AM EST --
FLYING OVER THE HIMALAYAS (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
"Will the passengers please fasten their seat belts," said a soft voice over the intercom. And I slid one end of the belt into . . .
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February 09, 2007 04:28 AM EST --
Nur Sagarmatha weiß es (Satis Shroff)
Der Sherpa stapft durch die Schnee
Keucht und Kämpft
Und bereitet den Weg
Mit Fixierseil, Leitern,
Haken und Spikes vor,
Und sagt: . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:07 AM EST --
Gorkhalis performing the maruni dance(Art by Mahadeo, Foto:Satis Shroff)
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DRINKING TEA IN DARJEELING (Satis Shroff, . . .
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March 17, 2007 06:48 AM EDT --
WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES (Satis Shroff)
Like Shakespeare said, 'All the world's a stage'
And we've played many different roles in our lives
In various places and scenarios. . . .
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March 22, 2007 06:12 PM EDT --
The Heart of the World (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 . . .
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February 02, 2007 06:07 AM EST --
It was a bright sunny morning when Claudia, Giacomo, Silvana I headed for Italy from Freiburg. The first Swiss town we went through was Basel, which is known for its university and chemical . . .
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February 09, 2007 03:49 AM EST --
There were two young men, brothers
Who left their homes
In the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas.
The older one, for his father had barked at him,
“Go to Nepal and never come home again.” . . .
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February 09, 2007 03:58 AM EST --
What others have said about the author: “Satis Shroff writes political poetry—about the war in Nepal, the sad fate of the Nepalese people, the emergence of neo-fascism in Germany. . . .
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February 22, 2007 04:23 PM EST --
THE GARDEN (Satis Shroff)
I sat in the garden
With Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure on my lap,
And saw a small butterfly
With dark spots on its frail wings,
Violet patterns on . . .
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February 02, 2007 05:57 AM EST --
How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,
Like softest music to attending ears. (Romeo and Julia: Shakespeare)
GROW WITH LOVE (Satis Shroff)
Love yourself . . .
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March 10, 2007 04:43 AM EST --
FLYING OVER THE ABODE OF THE SNOWS (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
"Will the passengers please fasten their seat belts," said a soft voice over the intercom. And I slid one end of the . . .
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March 07, 2007 02:38 PM EST --
GERMAN TRANSLATIONS (Satis Shroff)
Satis Shroff ist Journalist, Dichter und Schriftsteller. Schule in Darjeelings North Point, Studium der Zoologie und Botanik an der Tribhuvan Universität . . .
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February 20, 2007 07:11 AM EST --
KATHMANDU IS NEPAL (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
There were two young men, brothers
Who left their homes
In the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas.
The older one, for his father had barked . . .
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March 09, 2007 04:50 AM EST --
OH, KIRTIPUR (Satis Shroff)
Archana came from Kirtipur,
The hill of the noseless and earless.
She was a Vajracharya woman
Of the priest caste.
She spoke a language
Full of sweet monosyllables. . . .
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July 05, 2007 10:45 AM EDT --
The British and the Gurkhas: Worlds Apart? (Satis Shroff)
Even though generations of Nepalese soldiers called the fearsome Gurkhas, have fought Britain's colonial and other . . .
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December 19, 2006 05:56 AM EST --
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January 31, 2007 12:11 PM EST --
It was a bright sunny morning when Claudia, Giacomo, Silvana I headed for Italy from Freiburg. The first Swiss town we went through was Basel, which is known for its university and chemical . . .
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