Category: Literature

Burmese Literature collection with Poems, Essays, Short-Stories, Thoughts, Books, Classics, All Others

My Dear Mother Passed Away (Junior Win)

I could never be cured by time for my great loss of my dear mother. I eat and drink, and lie down, or having praying, that robotic activity makes the day would pass quickly that I thought in the every…

Junior Win – They Died with Their Boots On!

Junior Win – They Died with Their Boots On! On the 15th October of 2016, the boat carrying about 300 passengers on board (the boat pecked over the legal limit), sank on 5:00 AM at Chindwon River in Burma. It…

Junior Win – The Adventure of My Book Reading – I Am Reading Encyclopedia

A Present from My Grandmother When I was 10 (The old copy of The Modern Encyclopedia for Children.) The old edition of The Modern Encyclopedia for Children (1966) that our grandmother (Khin Myo Chit – writer of Colourful Burma, etc)…

Khin Maung Saw – The Legend of a King, a Princess and a Monk

The Legend of a King, a Princess and a Monk By Khin Maung Saw According to Arakanese Chronicles, Mauk Thuzar was an Arakanese town in Bengal which traditionally belonged to the Arakanese Kingdom.  It is believed that twelve towns in…

Junior Win – Burmese New Year Passing with No Padauk

  Burmese New Year Passing with No Padauk (Junior Win) (Padauk buds were hoping to meet the shower of the rain.) This year 2016, 13th April was the welcoming day of the water festival, and after 4 days of watering,…

PREFACE TO QUEST FOR PEACE by Dr. Khin Maung Win

(PREFACE TO QUEST FOR PEACE by Dr. Khin Maung Win) There have been many drafts of Quest For Peace under many different titles.The final draft is now known as an autobiography of Daw Khin Myo Chit.However,when it was first written…

Aung Way – AN UNLUCKY SEA (English Translation by Maung Nyi Nyutt)

Aung Way – AN UNLUCKY SEA (English Translation by Maung Nyi Nyutt) ——— O! Listen, Wolf Larsin, the galloping of my heart wild horse’s music. I was deeply affected and far from the brave song of sailing. The wind that…

Seasonal Flowers, and Bonus Flowers in the Summer 2015 By Junior Win

This summer is so hot and there wasa hardful warning to everyone from the daily weather report. It said ultraviolet rays have now high radiation. It was dangerous if we were goingoutside between 11am and 3pm. But wait! There were…

A Day at the Bookshop by Junior Win

(I was before the Encyclopedias bookshelf.) I was at the bookshop today. I had a plan to buy some updated Encyclopedias for my work. I now had been writing regular supplement for some Education journal. They requested me to write…

eBooks of Khin Myo Chit

My grandmother; Khin Myo Chit’s two books – ‘Colourful Burma’ Part 1 and ‘Three Years Under the Japs(1945)’ are now available as ebooks on Kindle Store. Here are the links that if you need more information about the books. http://www.amazon.com/Khin-Myo-Chit-Colorful-Burma-ebook/dp/B00L5Y7Z1M/…

DHAMMA – DANA – Sunlun Way of Meditation by Junior Win

I received letters from my readers who discussed with me the ‘Sunlun Way of Meditation’, and I heard their interest about the Sunlun Sayadaw; U Vinaya. I was familiar with the meditation since my childhood, because I was born in Burma,…

A Poem for You – You Are A Lonesome Hero by Junior Win

(A Burmese Journalist and Writer; U Win Tin (1930-2014), at his visit to our home) (‘So, I might be a very lonesome voice, not a loud voice, but I must say so all the time.’. – U Win Tin) A…

East And West, Now Met (Junior Win)

East And West, Now Met (Junior Win)  Our Burmese traditional food; Htamane feast is either celebrated communally or done in the private circle of family and friends. It comes, when Tabo-dwa (February), the eleventh month of Burmese calendar, we have…

Days and Flowers of Myanmar – book published – by Junior Win

My digital book ‘Burmese Days and Flowers’ which was about the Burmese traditional Thingyan Pot published in Kindle ebook on May 2013. That digital book now appeared as ‘Days and Flowers of Myanmar’ from Parami Publication House in Burma with…

Talk About this Book by Junior Win

(Among them, I saw ‘Introducing Camus’ at the moment,…) In 2004, a Burmese writer Ko Tar (publisher of Mon Ywe Publication House) requested my father Dr. Khin Maung Win, to translate some ‘Introducing Series’ into Burmese. Among them, I saw…