Thursday, January 17, 2008

Sly Stallone chose Burma rather than Afghanistan as setting for his new movie Rambo.

http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEE20080117050126&Page=E&Title=Startrek&Topic=0


I'd do the same -- partly of course because I am from Burma, and the Burma issue needs all the publicity it can get.

The politics of Afghanistan is too complex to show perhaps in a movie, and there are splendid books like Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns and the Kite Runner.

Kyi May Kaung

3 Burmese poems, introduced and translated by Kyi May Kaung--

http://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/03/3-burmese-poems-introduced-and.html