Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime
edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoe West
Voice of Witness/McSweeney's Books, 2011
Although personal
In late September, President Thein Sein suddenly – and surprisingly – ordered the suspension of work on the massive Myitsone dam, close to the Chinese border, planned and financed by Beijing. In
Tharu. Chhetri. Danuwar. Gurung. Lohar. Newar. The Nepali people belong to 102 ethnicities, castes and other groups and speak 92 living languages. Amidst sweeping political changes, it has become very
Thupten arrived at the Kathmandu airport, grabbed his duffle bag from the conveyor belt and walked right past the security check. There was a huddle of people waiting to put
Yunnan was one of the worst-hit areas during World War II, almost completely destroyed by Japanese bombing. By today the province has been rebuilt, however, and the old Burma
The first autobiography I ever read was providentially, or prophetically, or perhaps both, Seven Years Solitary, by a Hungarian woman who had been in the wrong faction during the Communist
It seems that the financial situation at the BBC is even direr than earlier presumed. In early November, Chhetria Patrakar was baffled and dismayed – still is – to find that the
