For seven years I dwelt in the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games with the girls of the island
Now I have come again to the land of the fair
And the strong and the wise

Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
Children of night
Who among you will run with the hunt?

Now night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready

Zoran Djindjic is the prime minister of the Republic of Serbia. Born on 1 August 1952 in Bosnia, Djindjic became politically active during his student years at the University of Belgrade. In the 1970s, he associated with Yugoslavia’s New Left philosophers, a group of reform-minded socialists focused around the journal Praxis. After spending several months in jail for attempting to create an autonomous non-communist student organization with fellow students from Croatia and Slovenia, Djindjic moved to Germany, where he earned a doctorate in philosophy under Jurgen Habermas in 1979. He remained in Germany for most of the 1980s, returning to Yugoslavia in 1989 to teach philosophy at Novi Sad University.

Interesting Frankfurt School links with Balkan touch