Presented at the “Myanmar in Transition” seminar during the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Economics, Yangon, 30 November, 2014. Than Tun (aka) Ashok Nath Senior Research Fellow, Centre for
Tazaungmon (November) is the 8th month of Myanmar lunar calendar and it is the first month of Myanmar cold season called in Pali “Heiman” lasting four months -Tazaung-mon (November), Nattaw
It’s twelve noon and it’s the usual time for most Myanmar people to “eat rice”. In Grade IV, Section A,
If I were asked what is one of the things I have cherished since I was a child, I would
“This thing called THIN-GAN (monk’s robes) But itself is not a thing to be undesirable, But worn by this bloated,
So much so is the love for sour things by Myanmar people that the instance they talk about sour fruits
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It is a game yet one would think it to be a dance. It exhibits so many choreographic elements which seem to come straight from the court dances of an