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, November 21, 2024

Wonderful Indian speculative fiction--"And the pret jumped down my throat."

http://www.anathemamag.com/never-yawn-under-a-banyan-tree

Pret are pretta or paikta which the monks exorcise with gandapa when they read the kamawar-sa.

Lovely and funny. A pret meets modern democratic India.

KyiMayKaung

Thursday, November 21, 2024

Wonderful Indian speculative fiction--"And the pret jumped down my throat."

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala--I have a volume of her short stories--which I like a great deal.

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