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, March 07, 2024
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_literature
What the heck--so I'm not a "Burmese writer"bc I write mainly in English.
What about Tibetan writers who write in Mandarin??
Indians who write in English?
We'll show you.
The image I have attached is famous artist Cindy Sherman's self portrait as a woven tapestry.
Harry Belafonte--Purism is an excuse for mediocrity. We might as well go back to the stone age, From his NYT obit.
Top 35 Harry Belafonte Quotes (2024 Update) - QuoteFancy
Kyi May Kaung.
Bottom line is if we don't stick together, we will all hang separately. I see a lot of racism among so-called educated Burmese--
Mahatma Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ...
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