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Poetry Review: Wings of Time (Satis Shroff)
Review: Sharma, Suyog Wings of Time, Publisher Basundhara Sharma, St. Mary’s Hill (India) First Edition 2007, 56 pages, $ 10 (ISBN: None) Wings of Time is a work of power in the sense that the young poet was aware in his musings that life had cheated on him and the tumors were growing in silence within him and there was no escape. In this critical stage of no return his musings wander to his pure love... (posted by Satis 1 year 20 days ago.)
Review: Sharma, Suyog Wings of Time, Publisher Basundhara Sharma, St. Mary’s Hill (India) First Edition 2007, 56 pages, $ 10 (ISBN: None) Wings of Time is a work of power in the sense that the young poet was aware in his musings that life had cheated on him and the tumors were growing in silence within him and there was no escape. In this critical stage of no return his musings wander to his pure love... (posted by Satis 1 year 20 days ago.)
Schwarzwald Chronicle: Triberg and Schönwald
Triberg, with its hamlets Nussbach and Grammelsbach, is a lovely spa-town and has the highest waterfalls in Germany, surrounded by wild and untamed nature. The town of Triberg is associated with four other townships: Schonach, Schönwald, Furtwangen and St. Georgen, and this area in the Southern Black Forest has a healthy invigorating climate, unspoiled nature and was also the place where Ernest Hemingway... (posted by Satis 1 year 119 days ago.)
Triberg, with its hamlets Nussbach and Grammelsbach, is a lovely spa-town and has the highest waterfalls in Germany, surrounded by wild and untamed nature. The town of Triberg is associated with four other townships: Schonach, Schönwald, Furtwangen and St. Georgen, and this area in the Southern Black Forest has a healthy invigorating climate, unspoiled nature and was also the place where Ernest Hemingway... (posted by Satis 1 year 119 days ago.)
Commentary: German Waltz versus Argentinian Tango
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 against the Brit team. Joachim Löw is in cloud seven (German: Siebte Himmel), thanks to Podolski, a great lad with an infectious smile and a stunning left leg. The... (posted by Satis 1 year 223 days ago.)
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 against the Brit team. Joachim Löw is in cloud seven (German: Siebte Himmel), thanks to Podolski, a great lad with an infectious smile and a stunning left leg. The... (posted by Satis 1 year 223 days ago.)
Mark Twain: The Writer With the Texan Drawl
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 he used a psydonym: Mark Twain, which has become a household name in all English speaking countries. Drawing from his own boyhood experiences, he wrote the story of a... (posted by Satis 1 year 281 days ago.)
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 he used a psydonym: Mark Twain, which has become a household name in all English speaking countries. Drawing from his own boyhood experiences, he wrote the story of a... (posted by Satis 1 year 281 days ago.)
Medical Ethnology: Healing and Shamanism (Satis Shroff)
A shaman is a person who goes beyond the normal, ordinary sensory reception and perception of mortals into deeper dimensions. You can also enter this perceptive phase if you take the time and develop the inclination to delve deeper into the matter of the microcosm. It's not fantasy. It's reality, where you venture into. The shaman does this through his ecstatic dance, ancient rituals, songs and... (posted by Satis 1 year 302 days ago.)
A shaman is a person who goes beyond the normal, ordinary sensory reception and perception of mortals into deeper dimensions. You can also enter this perceptive phase if you take the time and develop the inclination to delve deeper into the matter of the microcosm. It's not fantasy. It's reality, where you venture into. The shaman does this through his ecstatic dance, ancient rituals, songs and... (posted by Satis 1 year 302 days ago.)
The Gesture of a Goddess
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 mayor of the town for getting rid of the rats that had infested the town. Unlike the Pied Piper, the attempt of Gurumapa can be thwarted by the noise of a hundred hoofs on Tudikhel's... (posted by Satis 1 year 323 days ago.)
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 mayor of the town for getting rid of the rats that had infested the town. Unlike the Pied Piper, the attempt of Gurumapa can be thwarted by the noise of a hundred hoofs on Tudikhel's... (posted by Satis 1 year 323 days ago.)
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