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.

Monday, June 17, 2019

Professor of English at Rangoon University, U Myo Min, + mention of Miss Virginia Geiger.

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

I still wish I had followed U Myo Min's advice, and taken English Literature.

I went to see him, as he asked to see me. I had taken E Lit as well as Burmese Lit for 2 years in college. I remember some of the lecturers, most notable Raymond Adlam from the British Cuncil.

I told U Myo Min I could read English on my own, but I couldn't read Economics, so I was taking Ecos.

I can still see him shaking his head.

In 2004 I found he had written a beautiful obituary for my father U Kaung.

6-17-2019

KyiMayKaung

Monday, June 17, 2019

Professor of English at Rangoon University, U Myo Min, + mention of Miss Virginia Geiger.

William Dalrymple's books--I've read a3--City of Djinns, White Moghuls, and The Last Moghul.

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