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 
Uprooted And Banished 
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 
 

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