Posts under ‘Myanmar’

She’s beautiful, courageous, and no one can doubt her integrity.  Aung San Suu Kyi personifies the born leader.
From the moment she walked into the public arena in 1988, her people loved her.  First they loved her because she was the daughter of their assassinated hero, General Aung San.  Later they loved her because she [...]

There’s a peculiar club – its members are spread around the world, but they all pretty much know each other, or at least they know of each other. They don’t really have a name, but let’s call them “The Burma Watchers.”

People who know or claim to know about Burma (currently officially called Myanmar, except for [...]

She’s free, and the world suddenly seems a slightly better place.
Have you, like me been glued to the news channels over the weekend, switching from radio to tv to get a glimpse of her or even hear her voice?
Aung San Suu Kyi revered heroine of the democracy movement in Burma was released this week after [...]

In the film Osama, the first film to be shot in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, a mother cuts the hair of her daughter and dresses her as a boy.  The two cannot manage in society without a male to protect them and so the frail little girl has to transform into a [...]

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