KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Cyclone Nargis hit Lower Burma and Rangoon in a big way --

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/04/myanmar.cyclone/index.html

Nargis -- was name of a famous Indian singer and comes from word nargissi -- meaning narcissus.

Boiled eggs encased in meat and fried (called Scotch eggs in West) are called nargissi kofta and are featured in one of Salman Rushdie's novels.

200 reported killed and extensive damage in Rangoon. Will cut and paste in separate "inside news" (in Burmese) in a new posting.

KyiMayKaung

Sunday, May 04, 2008

Cyclone Nargis hit Lower Burma and Rangoon in a big way --

Conn Iggulden is an amazing writer--from Rome, to Genghiz Khan and his descendents, to War of the Roses, to Athens--

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