- Kyi May Kaung, I would like to take a stroll through Burma with you
- Kyi May Kaung Hi Peter, I am not in Burma - these are shares. Do you mean you wish to interview me about Burma?
- Peter Popham No I just like your selection, and your comments - the views of the country of people born and raised there but long absent are valuable and fascinating. Let's talk when I am back in London in a week or two - I'm currently in Tokyo, where I lived decades back but had not visited for many years, so am enjoying my own Rip van Winkle moment here
- Kyi May Kaung I see -- well, I am glad you take the view that exiles have something to contribute - I was always very aggravated when I was on the international seminar circuit between 2001 and 2010 and "experts" would say "I just came from Burma" or "I was there on Wednesday" -- and I lived there 30 years ago - There is a saying in Burmese "The wise person thinking from afar, is more accurate than running to take a look." I first found this out when I was taking a diploma course in Warsaw, Poland in 1969 - the distance gives much better perspective than when you are literally sunk right in the middle - I look fwd to chatting with you. I can't remember the Dhammayangyi story very well, but I think built by king who murdered his father. Or he smothered his father to death in there.
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.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Expat views - on line Facebook dialogue with Peter Popham - biographer of Aung San Suu Kyi -
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
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Famous+Chinese+tenors#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:12005ab7,vid:_d4ap5I_tmk,st:0
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https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books