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.

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Free State of Jones--new movie and reality of Civil War period and Reconstruction (in the South) on which it is based.

Are you white, are you black, are you mixed, are you what??

See below too--

amazing movie based on amazing true story--

some Southerners rebelled and tried to join the North--

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-free-state-jones-180958111/?no-ist

I am off to see the movie soon.

KMKaung

6-30-2016

KyiMayKaung

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Free State of Jones--new movie and reality of Civil War period and Reconstruction (in the South) on which it is based.

Special post--Mita Kapur--TED talks Calcutta--what a literary agent does

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