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Fight to Save Orwell’s Burmese Inspiration
Cobwebs cover its furniture and its rooms are long deserted, but a crumbling house in northern Myanmar is at the center of a conservation battle by locals who say it was once home to George Orwell. The...
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Burma: Muslim activists denied chance to speak at Mandalay Literature Event
Three activists in Burma, including a leader from the influential 88 Generation Peace and Open Society, were prevented from appearing at a public event in Mandalay over the weekend, after dozens of...
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Being Burmese”: Anti-Muslim Violence and Burma’s Modern-Day Frontiers by...
In early February, I managed to negotiate my way past barbed wire barricades into a majority Muslim neighborhood in Sittwe: a dry and dusty town that sits next to the Bay of Bengal on Burma’s western...
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A fresh evaluation of the Burmese narrative through the female perspective:...
by Zafar Anjum The Female Voice of Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi by Nilanjana Sengupta (Cambridge University Press, India) is a scholarly treatise on Myanmar. The book will be released in...
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Burma takes pride in its first female Pulitzer Prize winner
BURMESE across the world are cheering the success of the first woman from Burma (Myanmar) to be awarded one of the top achievements in journalism, the Pulitzer Prize. Ethnic Kachin journalist Esther...
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Book Reviews: Dissident Memoirs of Ma Thida and U Kyaw Win
In times like these, when Burma is undergoing major changes, there is no shortage of essay collections in which Western academics and other observers try to make sense of a seemingly bewildering...
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Excerpts: Women at War by Vera Hildebrand
SINGAPORE – THE RANIS PREPARE FOR WAR In the fall of 1943, young women began to enlist in the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the Indian National Army in Singapore and in Rangoon. The RJR needed a base camp...
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‘Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers’: Portraits of...
By Stephen Mansfield It’s staggering to think that, at the end of the Pacific War, almost 7 million Japanese servicemen and civilians were awaiting repatriation in various parts of Asia. That figure...
View ArticleModern Burmese Literature — Its Background in the Independence Movement
FLASHBACK A look at the history of modern Burmese literature from The Atlantic‘s February 1958 issue. It was only in the 1920’s, when agitation for independence led to a national awakening, that...
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