Keeping the Faith
The minute that the military took over on February 1st, Hassan was under no illusions as to what was in store. “I never believed we could win without non-violence, because I know [the military],” he s...
13 Sep 20211h 52min
Towards a More Just Society
Marlar has spent years researching gender studies, women’s rights, and violence against women in Burmese society. She notes that besides Myanmar being a patriarchal culture, there is the Burmese Buddh...
31 Aug 20212h 1min
The Third Wave
In Myanmar, we know that the coup has been an on-going nightmare since February, and more recently there has been a sharp, Delta-driven Covid spike that the military leadership not only can’t control,...
24 Aug 20211h 57min
You Can't Go Home Again
The ending line of Jessica Mudditt’s book, Our Home In Myanmar, puts a startling cap on her account of her life in Yangon in the 2010s. She writes, “Myanmar’s sudden returned to a dictatorship means t...
19 Aug 20212h 21min
Fight the Power
There are several images that will forever be seared into the mind of the Burmese hip hop artist known as 882021; pictures and videos that he will never be able to unsee, like soldiers charging at pro...
14 Aug 20211h 10min
Dr. Sasa on the COVID crisis in Myanmar
From the moment you begin looking into the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus pandemic in Myanmar, the numbers are simply staggering. Some projections suggest half of the population might ...
3 Aug 20211h 9min
The Taste of Dhamma
This is the fourth episode in our ongoing series, “Love Letters to Myanmar.” Today’s show welcomes three foreigners who share how Myanmar has influenced and supported their spiritual path, and the dep...
26 Juli 20211h 58min
From Academic to Activist On the Run
When Han Htoo Khant Paing was pursuing degrees at the University of Economics in Yangon and Oxford University in England, he never imagined that one day he would be fleeing for his life to the jungles...
21 Juli 20212h 1min
