Home Is Where the Heart Is
You are listening to the second episode in our ongoing series, titled “Love Letters to Myanmar.”This series features guests who share their warmest memories and anecdotes, discuss what life lessons th...
9 Mai 20211h 40min
Operation Defection
For his contribution to the resistance, Ven Detta is seeking inspiration from Vladmir Lenin, spending the last several months studying the history of how soldiers are coaxed to defect during insurrect...
5 Mai 20211h 6min
Literally A Nightmare Scenario
Thiri is no stranger to the trauma brought on by the military coup. She spent five years with Human Rights Watch listening to people with cruel and brutal stories of their families killed or harmed by...
30 Apr 20212h 12min
A Risk-Taker at Risk
“Thurain” (not his real name) had planned to spend the start of 2021 building on his already impressive worldly achievements. Though a “country boy” from birth, he had made his mark in Yangon, establi...
25 Apr 20211h 49min
Touches with the Golden Land
Our team has decided to present a new series that focuses on our love and appreciation for the Golden Land. We hope that upcoming episodes in this series can help to provide some kind of counterbalanc...
21 Apr 20212h 15min
Going Rogue: A Doctor on the Front Lines
Coco’s career path in medicine wasn’t supposed to end up this way. But on February 1st, for Coco and so many others, “all of the dreams just got wasted away.”He was initially hesitant to join the stre...
14 Apr 20212h 27min
The End Justifies the Memes
What is the deeper, symbolic meaning of an overturned alms bowl? What reasoning goes into the decision as to whether a protest sign is written in English or Burmese, or as pictograms, or emojis? And h...
10 Apr 20212h 6min
A Screeching Halt: The Military Coup Shoots Down Reforms
Maw Htin Aung, a Kachin Christian by birth, appeared to be a leader right for his time, the kind of progressive champion needed in Myanmar who could help move the country towards a promising future. I...
5 Apr 20211h 34min
