Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Sad photos from inside Burma --

http://abbazz.zenfolio.com/p1064398251/slideshow#h32c928bc

Look at as many as you can bear to look at.

As the late historian, Dr. Than Htun said, "none of the temples are authentic from the ground floor up."

They are badly "renovated" and I'm told it's all a scam to loot the treasures and artifacts inside.

Government sells off temples for "renovation."

As we say in Burmese, the leak starts from the roof, corruption from the very top.

U Khin Zaw was also my mentor and my father's friend--

At the funeral he came up to the car and said, "From now on,I will be your literary father." At that time he had only read one of...