NLD

Long road to democracy

On Myanmar’s contentious elections, voter disenfranchisement and prospects for the future.

| Nov 21, 2020

Ruptured continuity

Will the new NLD government move forward with neoliberalism at the cost of a welfare state?

Ethnic groups, the military and ‘the Lady’

Given the poor showing by ethic political parties in the 2015 election, what next for the peace process?

| Nov 17, 2015

Burma Elections 2015

A web series on the 2015 Burmese elections, in collaboration with Democratic Voice of Burma.

| Nov 06, 2015

Delhi – Yangon – Delhi

A trip across borders geographical, political and cultural unravels the complex histories between India, Myanmar and their peoples

| Jan 15, 2013

Towards a Burmese spring

How much difference a year can make! The walls of closed society seem to be falling in Burma. But will the army remain silent?

| Dec 01, 2011

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