Satis Shroff

Satis Shroff is a writer and poet based in Freiburg (poems, fiction, non-fiction) who also writes on ethno-medical, culture-ethnological themes, and writes regularly for The American Chronicle. He has studied Zoology and Botany in Nepal, Medicine and Social Science in Germany and Creative Writing in Freiburg and Manchester. He describes himself as a mediator between western and eastern cultures and sees his future as a writer and poet. Satis Shroff was awarded the German Academic Exchange Prize. He is a lecturer in Basle (Switzerland).

Selected as Poet of the Week
on February 18, 2007 and again on June 22, 2008


Analysis
The British and the Gurkhas: World Apart?

Book Reviews
Kathmandu Blues: The Inheritance of Loss and Intercultural Competence
Yaks and Yetis

Cinema
Darjeeling Limited: A Journey to India and Within

Environment
Live and Let Live:
Wildlife Versus Humans in Beautiful Nepal

Health
Complementary and Modern Medicine: Strange Bedfellows?

Memoirs
Back to the Village Dreams
Ethnic Roots Abroad
Impressions From Central Switzerland

Places
Votive Images of the Mountain Chapel at Stoos

Poetry
A Gurkha Mother
Bombay Brothel
Deleting Lives in the Cyberworld
Grow with Love
Kathmandu is Nepal
My Nepal, Quo Vadis?
Music Between East and West
My Nightmare
Nirmala: Between Terror & Ecstasy
Oh Kirtipur
The Agony of War
The Garden
The Holy Cows of Kathmandu
The Loss of Mental Metamorphosis
The Lure of the Himalayas
The Ocean of Wisdom
The Sea Swells
The Street Where I Live
When the Soul Leaves

Society
A Hindu Wedding in Nepal
Drinking Tea in Darjeeling
How Winter is Banished in Germany

Travelogues
Flying Over the Himalayas
In Love with Venice
On Doctor Faustus and Mephistopheles
On This Spot a Lotus Bloomed