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.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The essays of Sir Francis Bacon -
http://www.bartleby.com/214/1620.html
I can never forget first "meeting them" in the classes of Mr Adlam from the British Council in Rangoon, at Rangoon University,in the late 50s, when I often sat next to Louisa Benson.
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