Sunday, August 21, 2011

Comment by Kyi May Kaung on Rangoon and Burma in the fifties - left on Sitmone blog

Dr. Kyaw Thet was a student of my father, educator Sithu U Kaung, and when they were children, Lin Aung Thet and his 2 sisters often came to visit with their parents.

Yes, the fifties were a time of openess and democracy - even U Nu in the same Ed Morrow program, who was supposed to have better Burmese than English, spoke good English and was able to hold his own with a foreign interviewer.

U Nu wrote and translated several books and his niece Khin Hnin Yu was a famous novelist.

U Nu's great mistake was being naive and "too religious" and giving Ne Win virtual carte blanche after NW quelled the Karen uprising. (This from a close friend of Dr. Kyaw Thet's who was born on the same day and has also passed away).

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

This reviewer in Slate likes latest Murakami novel--the walled city--the walled garden.

https://slate.com/culture/2024/11/haruki-murakami-book-city-uncertain-walls-severance-review.html