(Photo Left – my grandparents; U Khin Maung Latt and Khin Myo Chit (writer) with their son at Aye-Yeik-Thar, Photo Right – my grandma Khin Myo Chit (writer)) My grandparents once lived for 5 years from 1950 to 1955 at…
Burmese Novel before “the First Novel of the Modern Burmese Literature” By Khin Maung Saw (Download File included) In “The History of Burmese Literature”, the novel “Maung Yin Maung and Ma Mai Ma” written by by (U) James Hla Kyaw…
History recounted the last hours of the Norman Conquest in the following way . The Normans pressed their attack with cavalry and each time the Saxons , from behind their well placed barricades repelled them. Finally , the Normans resorted…
(My grandma – Khin Myo Chit (writer) (1915-1999)) Grandma was happy to help her non-Burmese friends if they asked her about Burmese culture or anything they needed. She sometimes visited pagodas with her non-Burmese friends, and explained everything what they…
Today was the full moon day of Kason (May), and it was the day the Buddha was born, and He attained the Enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi Tree, and the passing of the Buddha into the Nibbana. So,…
“All works of a poet are the meaning and the desires of the era he is living in.” Maung Aung Pwint. Photo: Khet Mar I once had an unsuccessful dream to publish a magazine in Burma. When I applied to…
(1985, My loving grandparents – U Khin Maung Latt, and (Daw) Khin Myo Chit (writer)) ‘Colourful Burma’ (1976) was my grandma’s famous book in the history of all time. The book was reprinted again and again until now. She wrote…
MAHA BANDOOLA’S DREAM – Part 3 (Dr Khin Maung Win (Math)) Fire …. … Fire The camp fires of the British forces seemed far away now.What happened? thought Maha Bandoola. Surely, it must be a dream …..it must be….what else…
My grandmother, (Daw) Khin Myo Chit (writer), was born in the 1st May of 1915, at Sagaing, Upper Burma. She had 3 brothers and one sister, and she was the eldest. The youngest of her brothers died young, and the…
MAHA BANDOOLA’S DREAM – Part 2 Maha Bandoola looked at the distant camp fires. Suddenly, the fires seemed to come nearer. No, that wasn’t how it happened.What really happened,he couldn’t tell. One could probably describe what happened as a dream.Even…
(Grandma with old hair style.) 1st May of 1915, her birthday now comes. Grandpa was also born on the same year. So we held their 100th anniversary on 2015, and I wrote a book, ‘A Memory of My Grandparents’ and…
(Seven-day-born flowers and leaves or A-Tar-Pot) Seven-day-born flowers or leaves, and the pot are used as Thingyan Pot (A-Tar-Pot) welcoming Burmese New Year. When the Thingyan Festival (Water Festival) is over; on the Burmese New Year Day, the same ritual…
