Posts under ‘Myanmar’

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They say they are caught between a crocodile and a snake. The Rohingya, amongst the most persecuted of Myanmar’s many persecuted peoples have for years, sought refuge in Bangladesh. A situation that can be portrayed as a drowning child grasping on to the neck of a starving and drowning adult. Or, if we’re sticking to their own original metaphor, the situation of the Rohingya is one where they are caught between a crocodile who will drown them and a snake who will suffocate them to death.

Could there be a loneliness more profound than being the last speaker of a language?

Is the extinction of a language any sadder than the extinction of a species? There are nearly 2,500 languages that could be in danger of disappearing completely.

There are more than one and a half billion of us South Asians.

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