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.

Saturday, December 31, 2016

Working on this right now--spiral scarf on circular needles--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cigDySQfASw

But I think I increased too much first 5 rows and then did not increase, anyway,  a whole lot of stitches to hold, but not too bad with  circular needles.

However, the needles and thread are too small and too laborious for me, but I will keep at it, at least for this one project in ombre yarn.

We will see.

Usually I use big gauge yarns and needles.

Ah well--what a life.

KMK
12-31-2016
Posted by Kyi May at 2:01 AM

jumbo book deal--being outrageous--

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/12/milo-yiannopoulos-usd250k-simon-and-schuster-book-deal.html
Posted by Kyi May at 12:40 AM

Some people are good as well as good to look at--Amal Cloony--90 photos

http://www.elle.com/fashion/celebrity-style/news/g39/amal-clooney-best-looks/?slide=13
Posted by Kyi May at 12:33 AM

Polish driver killed before Berlin truck attack honored in memorial service--

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/dec/30/polish-driver-killed-in-berlin-honoured-in-pictures
Posted by Kyi May at 12:06 AM

Friday, December 30, 2016

Intersex--on birth certificate--

http://gantdaily.com/2016/12/30/the-protocol-of-the-day-was-to-lie-nyc-issues-first-us-intersex-birth-certificate/

You should read the novel Middlesex--about a hermaphrodite--

BTW hermaphrodites, with both female and male genitals, have been around since Greek or Buddha's time--

called na pon tha ka pan doke, in Pali.

They are just outliers on the bell shaped distribution, the statistical definition of "abnormal" "normal" and "most frequent"--as in frequency.

If you don't understand what I am saying, take a statistics course or Google "bell shaped distribution."

KMK
12-30-2016


Posted by Kyi May at 9:10 PM

Highly recommended--the man who skewered Michael Skakel, (with a novel)--

http://www.macleans.ca/general/no-wonder-the-kennedys-hated-him/

Dominick Dunne was a fabulous writer, with just the right touch of fact meets fiction, driven by the murder of his own daughter, Dominique.

"He was with? them but not of them, so to speak."

A man to whom people told secrets, a real writer.

K.M. Kaung
12-30-2016
Posted by Kyi May at 8:35 PM

Light saber tributes to Carrie Fisher, star of Star Wars and her mother, Debbie Reynolds--

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2016/12/30/deaths-carrie-and-debbie-what-we-know-now/95997748/
Posted by Kyi May at 8:24 PM

Michael Skakel case--who was convicted first time by novel of Dominic Dunne's--

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/30/us/michael-skakel-conviction-reinstated/index.html
Posted by Kyi May at 8:16 PM

2 Russian hackers on FBI's most wanted list--

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alleged-russian-hackers-fbis-wanted/story?id=44470746
Posted by Kyi May at 4:20 PM

Why Nations Fail--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail
Posted by Kyi May at 4:15 PM

My poetry and political commentary, in Foreign Policy in Focus--

http://fpif.org/authors/kyi-may-kaung/
Posted by Kyi May at 1:03 PM

Poetry post for today--Merrill Leffler--

http://www.dryadpress.com/TakeHold.htm
Posted by Kyi May at 1:00 PM

Uber driver saves 16 year old from prostitution--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/12/30/an-eavesdropping-uber-driver-saved-his-16-year-old-passenger-from-her-pimps-police-say/?utm_term=.2e0f819585f1
Posted by Kyi May at 12:02 PM

Carrie Fisher and mother Debbie Reynolds die within 48 hours of each other--

http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/debbie-reynolds-carrie-fisher-bright-lights-hbo-documentary-1201949513/
Posted by Kyi May at 11:13 AM

Severe sanctions on Russia, but Putin says he won't expell US diplomats, invites them to New Year Party--

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/world/europe/russia-diplomats-us-hacking.html?_r=0
Posted by Kyi May at 10:11 AM

Monday, December 26, 2016

Quote of the day--Christmas in Alaska--from US Edition--The UK based The Guardian--

 DT or no DT, they die--mostly Native Americans:

Quote begins:

However, for years in their adulthood, Nickolai and Amaktoolik lived on the streets of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city. Both lived with chronic alcoholism.
Carl, a 28-year-old who has been homeless for most of his life, holds a sign on a corner in Anchorage, when the temperature remained in the single digits.
 
Carl, a 28-year-old who has been homeless for most of his life, holds a sign on a corner in Anchorage, when the temperature remained in the single digits. Photograph: Ash Adams for the Guardian
Alaska has some of the highest per capita rates of homelessness and alcoholism in America. From October to April, when temperatures can fall below freezing in this city of 300,000, bodies turn up outside with grim predictability; they are found in cars, hunched for warmth near transformer boxes, or in makeshift camps in the city’s many wooded parks.
Bodies also appear in the spring, as the snow recedes, often surrounded by plastic bottles once filled with alcohol or mouthwash. The most at-risk are those who have poorly treated physical or mental illnesses and years of alcoholism. The dead are disproportionately Alaska Natives, police and homelessness advocates say, who make up 20% of the general population but constitute half of the clients in shelters.
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There are about 3,000 to 4,000 people without permanent housing in Anchorage, though many of those are living in shelters or couch surfing. At the last count in August, about 450 people were living in emergency shelters and in outside camps.
Each winter, the city scrambles to find enough shelter beds to prevent deaths from exposure. Almost always, the demand is greater than the supply. At times during November, Brother Francis, the city’s largest shelter, turned away 50 people a night, said Lisa Caldeira, its program director.
The city was able to open more than 100 extra beds in early December, but Brother Francis is still turning people away. “It’s not enough,” Caldeira said.
Kim Kovol, deputy director of the city’s largest soup kitchen, Bean’s Cafe, said her staff walk the streets every morning this time of year in search of people who need help. “Our staff go out and wake everybody,” she said. “All you do is pray they are not dead.”
Our staff go out and wake everybody. All you do is pray they are not dead
Kim Kovol, director of Anchorage's largest soup kitchen
When someone begins drinking in the cold, they may have a false sense of warmth. Continued drinking slows circulation in the extremities, doctors say, which can lead to frostbite. It also causes dehydration, exacerbating the symptoms of hypothermia, including poor reasoning and drowsiness.
“People pass out,” Kovol said. “They pass out on the street, in the sidewalk, in parking lots.”
Nancy Burke, housing and homeless coordinator for Anchorage, said the drug of choice in the city is alcohol. The rate of alcohol abuse among Alaska Natives is consistently the highest among all ethnic groups, mirroring that of American Indians in the lower 48 states, according to federal statistics.
Posted by Kyi May at 3:40 PM

Quote of the day--Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman's article on "New China Trade"--

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/08/opinion/when-china-stumbles.html

His blog makes the point:
That is, I’d argue, the way to think about the coming Trump shock. You can’t really turn the clock back a quarter-century; but even trying can produce exactly the kind of rapid, disruptive shifts in production that fed blue-collar anger going into this election.
The idea is expanded in the column:
What the coming trade war will do, however, is cause a lot of disruption. Today’s world economy is built around “value chains” that spread across borders: your car or your smartphone contain components manufactured in many countries, then assembled or modified in many more. A trade war would force a drastic shortening of those chains, and quite a few U.S. manufacturing operations would end up being big losers, just as happened when global trade surged in the past.

. . .
 Recent empirical research seems to tell us that such damages are more persistent than we had thought:
China’s emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside the heralded consumer benefits of expanded trade are substantial adjustment costs and distributional consequences. These impacts are most visible in the local labor markets in which the industries exposed to foreign competition are concentrated. Adjustment in local labor markets is remarkably slow, with wages and labor-force participation rates remaining depressed and unemployment rates remaining elevated for at least a full decade after the China trade shock commences. Exposed workers experience greater job churning and reduced lifetime income. At the national level, employment has fallen in U.S. industries more exposed to import competition, as expected, but offsetting employment gains in other industries have yet to materialize. Better understanding when and where trade is costly, and how and why it may be beneficial, are key items on the research agenda for trade and labor economists.
Posted by Kyi May at 3:24 PM

Philadelphia, Drexel Univ. professor draws ire--

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/26/drexel-professor-draws-ire-after-posting-white-genocide-tweet-on-christmas.html
Posted by Kyi May at 3:19 PM

Buffalo school board menber in trouble for racist "jokes" against Obamas--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/12/26/trump-ally-who-wished-death-on-obama-is-a-school-board-member-and-calls-for-his-removal-are-growing/?utm_term=.23806381db33
Posted by Kyi May at 3:16 PM

Sunday, December 18, 2016

the Exxon-Russia connection--

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/exxon-mobile-russia-sanctions-rex-tillerson-232770
Posted by Kyi May at 8:40 AM

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Arakan footnote--how Arakan king betrayed Shah Shuja (son of Shah Jahan)--I bet you did not know this

Governor of Bengal

Shuja was appointed by Shah Jahan as the Subahdar of Bengal and Bihar from 1641 and of Orissa from 25 July 1648 until 1661.[1][3] During his governorship, he built the official residence Bara Katra in the capital Dhaka.[4]
After the illness of Shah Jahan in September 1657, a power crisis occurred among the brothers. Shah Shuja proclaimed himself as Emperor, but Aurangzeb ascended the throne of Dheli and sent Mir Jumla to subjugate Shuja.[5] Shuja was defeated in the Battle of Khajwa on 5 January 1659.[1] He retreated first to Tandah and then to Dhaka on 12 April 1660.[1] He left Dhaka on 6 May and boarded ships near present-day Bhulua on 12 May heading Arakan.[1] Mir Jumla reached Dhaka on 9 May 1660 and was then appointed by Aurangzeb as the next Subahdar of Bengal.[5]

Construction projects in Dhaka

  • Bara Katra
  • Dhanmondi Eidgah
  • Hussaini Dalan
  • An etching of Bara Katra by Sir Charles D'Oyly in 1823

Mughal war of succession

Armored elite War elephant from the battalion of Shah Shuja.
The Mughal armies of Aurangzeb and Shah Shuja confront each other.
When Shah Jahan fell ill, a struggle for the throne started between his four sons - Dara Shikoh, Shah Shuja, Aurangzeb and Murad Baksh. Shuja immediately crowned himself the emperor and took imperial titles, November 1657.
He marched with a large army, backed by a good number of war-boats in the river Ganges. However, he was beaten by Dara's army in a hotly contested Battle of Bahadurpur near Banares (in modern Uttar Pradesh, India). Shuja turned back to Rajmahal to make further preparations. He signed a treaty with his elder brother Dara, which left him in control of Bengal, Orissa and a large part of Bihar, 17 May 1658.
In the meantime, Aurangzeb defeated Dara twice (at Dharmat and Samugarh), caught him, executed him on a charge of heresy and ascended the throne. Shuja marched again to the capital, this time against Aurangzeb. A battle took place on 5 January 1659 at the Battle of Khajwa (Fatehpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India) where Shuja was defeated.[6]
After his defeat, Shuja retreated towards Bengal. He was pursued by the imperial army under Mir Jumla. Shuja put up a good fight against them. However, he was finally defeated in the last battle in April 1660. After each defeat he had to face desertions in his own army, but he did not lose heart. He, rather, reorganised the army with renewed vigor. But when he was going to be surrounded at Tandah, and when he found that reorganisation of the army was no longer possible, he decided to leave Bengal for good and take shelter in Arakan.

read more of Shah Shuja wiki
Posted by Kyi May at 6:59 PM

Word portrait of Emperor Auraungzeb--one of the most doctrinaire, and the last of the Moghul Dynasty--

http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj/Jackson5/chapter15.html

died at age 90, reigned 50 years, so you can imagine how the people suffered.

This website is invaluable, as it gives Timur's, Babur's,  Humuyan's and Jahangir and Shah Jahan's memoirs too, all translated from the original chronicles

and all free on line too.

posted 12-17-2016
Posted by Kyi May at 6:49 PM

Quote of the day--from Timur's diary of his conquest of Dehli (India)

My scouts now brought me information that Mallu Khan with four thousand horsemen in armour, five thousand infantry, and twenty-seven fierce war elephants, fully accoutred, had come out of the gardens of the city and had drawn up in battle array. I left Sayyid Khwaja and Mubashar Bahadur with three hundred Turkish horsemen on gray horses in the Jahan-numa and withdrew toward my camp. Mallu Khan advanced boldly toward Jahan-numa, and Sayyid Khwaja and Mubashar went forth to meet him. A conflict ensued, in which my men fought valiantly; and as soon as I heard of the action, I sent Sunjak Bahadur and Amir Allah-dad with two regiments to their support. At the earliest practicable moment, they assailed the enemy with arrows and then charged them. At
Page 201
the second and third onslaught the enemy was defeated and fled toward Delhi in disorder, while many fell under the swords and arrows of my men. When the men fled, an extraordinary incident occurred, in that one of the great war elephants fell down and died. When I heard of it, I declared it to be a good omen. My victorious troops pursued the enemy to the vicinity of the city and then returned to present themselves at my tent, where I congratulated them on their victory and praised their conduct. On the next day, Friday, the* third of the month (Dec. 13), I left the fort of Loni and marched to a position opposite to Jahan-numa, where I encamped.
I now held a court, issuing a summons to the princes, amirs, and minor officers, all of whom came to my tent. Each of my soldiers was a brave veteran, and had used his sword manfully under my own eyes, but there were none that had seen so many conflicts and battles as I had beheld, and no one of the amirs or heroes of the army that could compare with me in the amount of fighting I had gone through and the experience I had gained. I therefore gave them instructions as to the mode of carrying on war; on making and meeting attacks; on arraying their men; on giving support to each other; and on all the precautions to be observed in warring with an enemy. I ordered the amirs of the right wing, the left wing, the van, and the centre to take their proper positions, and cautioned them not to be too forward or too backward, but to act with the utmost prudence and caution in
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Mohammedan armour
their operations. When I had finished, the amirs and others testified their approbation, and, carefully treasuring up my counsel, they departed, expressing their blessings and thanks.
At this court Amir Jahan Shah, Amir Sulaiman Shah, and other amirs of experience informed me that, from the time of entering Hindustan up to the present we had taken more than one hundred thousand infidels and Hindus prisoners, and that they were all in my camp. On the previous day, when the enemy’s forces attacked us, the prisoners made signs of rejoicing, uttered imprecations against us, and were ready, as soon as they heard of the enemy’s success, to form themselves into a body, break their bonds, plunder our tents, and then to join the enemy, and so increase his numbers and strength. I asked the amirs for advice about the prisoners, and they said that on the day of battle these one hundred thousand prisoners could not be left with the baggage, and that it would be entirely opposed to the rules of war to set these idolaters and foes of Islam at liberty, so that no course remained but to make them all food for the sword.
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An Indian Dagger
When I heard these words, I found them to be in accordance with the rules of war, and I immediately directed the commanders to proclaim throughout the camp that every man who had infidel prisoners was to put them to death, and that whoever neglected to do so, should himself be executed and his property given to the informer. When this order became known to the champions of Islam, they drew their swords and put their prisoners to death. One hundred thousand infidels, impious idolaters, were slain on that day. Maulana Nasir-ad-din Omar, a counsellor and man of learning, who had never killed a sparrow in all his life, now, in execution of my order, killed fifteen idolatrous Hindus, who were his captives.
After all the vile idolaters had been despatched, I gave orders that one man out of every ten should be told off to guard the property, cattle, and horses which had been captured in the invasion, while all the other soldiers were to march with me. At the time of midday prayer the signal was given for the march, and I proceeded to the spot selected for crossing the Jumna, and there encamped. The astrologers who accompanied the army consulted their books and almanacs as to the time propitious for battle, and they represented that the aspects of the stars made a short delay advisable. In all matters, small and great, I placed my reliance on the favour and kindness of God, and I knew that victory and conquest, defeat and flight,
Posted by Kyi May at 6:12 PM

Tamerlane Chess--said to have been invented by Timur--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamerlane_chess
Posted by Kyi May at 5:53 PM
https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477770573&sr=8-1&keywords=Kyi+May+Kaung+A+Time+to+Write
Posted by Kyi May at 5:40 PM

Good Christmas present--how a writer ticks and stays motivated--



My memoir A Time to Write, Not just about Burma by Kyi May Kaung, is now live on line--where you may buy it in paperback or ebook form--
Here is the paperback and e book versions of my writerly memoir


https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477770573&sr=8-1&keywords=Kyi+May+Kaung+A+Time+to+Write

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-writer-Memoirs-ebook/dp/B01M7V6NMD/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477770702&sr=8-1-fkmr2&keywords=Kyi+May+kaung+A+Time+to+Write



10-29-2016
Posted by Kyi May at 5:21 PM

Heimlich who taught anti-choking method, dies--pl share widely--copy and paste--

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/henry-heimlich-dead_us_58559aa2e4b0b3ddfd8d2587
Posted by Kyi May at 5:17 PM

Two women, so different, so the same--

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-uncovered/amal-clooney-takes-isis-clear-case-genocide-yazidis-n649126
Posted by Kyi May at 10:58 AM

diamonds--how they are formed--

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-massive-diamonds-iron-20161215-story.html
Posted by Kyi May at 10:22 AM

Well well well-speechless--

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/-Foreign-diplomats-see-spending-money-at-Trump-hotel-as-easy-gesture-to-new-president.html
Posted by Kyi May at 10:17 AM

California gets ready to defy T

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/17/505904428/california-gets-ready-to-defy-trumps-washington?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr
Posted by Kyi May at 10:02 AM

Probably foreign policy mis-step #3, but hard to count. T. slams China for drone seizure--in S China Sea.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-16/pentagon-demands-china-return-an-intercepted-u-s-navy-vessel
Posted by Kyi May at 9:53 AM

Good--WaPo fact checks the d t via a plug in--now his tongue better have bones--

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/washington-post-automatically-inserts-trump-fact-checks-into-twitter/
Posted by Kyi May at 9:50 AM

Friday, December 16, 2016

Quote of the day--from an interview of Mr Quintana see link below--

Q3:  Do you see parallels between the situations in the DPRK (N Korea) and Myanmar? (Burma)
OQ:  Myanmar has been ruled by a military regime for 40 years. During my mandate, starting in 2008 and ending in 2014, throughout those years I could establish that there was at that time a pattern of gross and systematic human rights abuses that entailed crimes against humanity in Myanmar. Therefore, we can draw a parallel between Myanmar and the DPRK since the latest reports, especially those coming from the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK (COI), also showed patterns of human rights abuses in DPRK which were considered by the COI as crimes against humanity.
Let me speak about another parallel: the fact that Myanmar was for many years also an isolated country, isolated from the international community where human rights rapporteurs were unable to visit the country. For a combination of factors, this changed. I had a chance then to visit Myanmar many times; I visited at least nine times. I traveled all over the country. I visited political prisoners, and at the same time, I had the opportunity to meet with the authorities, which is always very relevant when addressing a human rights situation. 
In fact, the ideal of cooperation is central for Special Rapporteurs. Now this seems to be a very critical difference between Myanmar and DPRK, since the authorities of North Korea throughout the years haven’t shown a willingness to cooperate with UN rapporteurs. This, of course, will be a challenge. You may know that when the Human Rights Council of the United Nations appoints Special Rapporteurs, they ask them not only to report to it, but to do this through the principle of cooperation, which is a very important principle in the UN Charter. This has been a critical difficulty in respect to the DPRK. This is a clear difference between Myanmar and DPRK, since Myanmar nowadays has opened to the international community and has even changed from a military regime to a civilian government.
Q4:  How are you planning to approach the particular challenges of the DPRK mandate?
OQ:  The very first element that a Special Rapporteur has to show to the concerned parties, in this case the authorities of the DPRK, is independence and impartiality. Of course, my predecessors and members of the COI have been holding this important attitude. But I’m a new Rapporteur, so the first step is to show independence and impartiality in respect to the situation.
And then there is a question of strategy to try to engage those stakeholders who can somehow influence the DPRK authorities to reconsider their policy towards UN human rights mechanisms including the Rapporteurs, to influence them to start cooperating as it might be to their benefit because cooperation means a willingness to offer assistance, to offer help, in addressing human rights problems. This is something that is difficult. Don’t forget that rapporteurs have mandates from the Human Rights Council for six years, so it is a necessity to think in not only the short term but also the long term for strategy. Bearing in mind the importance of cooperation, it’s my main task to provide a voice to those who suffer human rights abuses on the ground.
Posted by Kyi May at 2:10 AM

Wow--people who go quietly about their work--Tomas Ojea Quintana, who was UN Special Rapporteur for Burma to 2014 (6 years) is now UN Special R for N Korea. Good job, Mr. Quintana, thank you--

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55646#.WFONcVypA2w
Posted by Kyi May at 1:47 AM

Tomas Ojea Quintana--UN Special Rapporteur for Burma--Google search results

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Posted by Kyi May at 1:41 AM

Slow burning genocide --report on Rohingya of Burma

http://www.maungzarni.net/2014/07/the-slow-burning-genocide-of-myanmars.html
Posted by Kyi May at 1:09 AM

Thursday, December 15, 2016

Dylan Roof, Charleston church shooter, guilty on all counts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/12/15/jurors-begin-deliberating-in-charleston-church-shooting-trial/?utm_term=.a13ad505fc73
Posted by Kyi May at 11:49 PM

jeez--when and how will this end?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/us/politics/donald-trump-david-friedman-israel-ambassador.html?_r=0
Posted by Kyi May at 11:41 PM

Presdt. Obama, sound bites on NPR--what a difference from the other guy--

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/15/505775550/obama-on-russian-hacking-we-need-to-take-action-and-we-will
Posted by Kyi May at 11:36 PM

Corpus Christi water--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-latest-tceq-working-with-corpus-christi-on-water-issue/2016/12/15/80505c36-c332-11e6-92e8-c07f4f671da4_story.html?utm_term=.59de85dcbe4e
Posted by Kyi May at 11:34 PM

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Babur's sister, often a pawn of politics, buried near her brother at Bagh e Babur (The Gardens of Babur)

I am a great fan of this garden, which I have seen replicated many times--especially at Marjorie Meriweather Post's Hillwood, but none have the mountains of Afghanistan for a backdrop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khanzada_Begum

Hillwood--photo by K M Kaung.


Posted by Kyi May at 7:22 PM

The Baburnama--the memoirs of the Emperor Babur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baburnama
Posted by Kyi May at 6:23 PM

Fed raises rates--

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-14/fed-raises-rates-boosts-outlook-for-borrowing-costs-in-2017
Posted by Kyi May at 6:12 PM

Uber self driving cars in San Francisco--

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/ubers-self-driving-cars-start-picking-up-passengers-in-san-francisco/
Posted by Kyi May at 2:43 PM

Highly recommended--documentary--The Great Moghuls--beautifully filmed, edited, written and narrated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7RIdSGD_jQ

Descendants of Timur and Genghis Khan (Mongols)

Timur is usually referred to as a Tatar.

Moghuls:

Babur

Akbar

Jehangir (Shah Jahan)

The Jehangir who died, son of Timur, is evidently a predecessor.

(Dara Shiko)--who was heir to Shan Jahan, but was killed by his brother, Aurangzeb.

Of course, this was where I was getting to, but I have spent about 3-4 years reading about Genghiz and his sons and grandsons

and now started reading about Timur, who led the Mongols (later called Moghuls) into India.

BTW--30 years ago, a friend from Bombay (Mumbai), a Parsi, first told me that "Mongols are the same as Moghuls"--only a little more evolved.

I find it all fascinating, and I believe it is a good thing to study and write about other things or places that Burma--which gets so disgusting, Burma Burma Burma

same as what we read about in news daily.
 All from Internet--reconstruction based on exhumed skull of Timur.
 Timurid Empire at time of his death.
 Timur defeats Ottoman Sultan
Timur feasting in the Green City of Samarkand.


The world is just as savage now as in the 12th to 17th century--

only with different (I won't say "better") certainly more dangerous technology, as the cyber wars are showing.

K M Kaung
12-14-2016
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