In early March 2002, Khin Zaw, pictured, stepped on a landmine while working as a hunter in the Wawlay Nyaing forest some four hours outside of the small Karen town of Myawaddy on the Thai-Burmese border. He lost his right leg, and with it any viable means of livelihood, and for eight years has lived [...]
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Khin Zaw – landmine survivor, professional beggar, man of faith
Posted in article, Burma material, reportage on December 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lady…and the Black Shadow behind her
Posted in article, Burma material, memoir, reportage on November 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The day before I left Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi had been released only two days before from nearly fifteen years of imprisonment. I had deliberately avoided the scenes of jubilation and fervor that had greeted her at the gates of her house on University Avenue on November 13th, and again during her address at [...]
On the eve of election – Burma’s unquiet moment of truth
Posted in article, Burma material, reportage on October 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In downtown Yangon, exactly a fortnite before the country’s national ‘democratic election’ is due to be contested, life appears much as usual. People lounge and relax for hours over slow nickle pots of tea in street tea-shops, children run and play among vehicles and the detritus of roadwork, monks – and nuns, in miraculously clean, [...]
Near Mumbai, November 2008
Posted in memoir, poetic prose, reportage on October 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Grit that seems to come from under the door. As if self-willed, stolen in by
night. In the morning, before I turn on the TV, there is a small ritual of
gathering this fine sand, come in from the street, from different travellers’
shoes, from the largely arid wastes of the plains…
(Published in “Percutio” Literary Journal, No. 3, 2009, Paris; online at “GROUP Magazine” Issue #3: http://groupmag.blogspot.com/2009/10/group-issue-number-three-nasser-palangi.html)
