Pride and optimism – change is in the air, says William Lloyd George on the eve of by-elections in Rangoon.
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Pride and optimism – change is in the air, says William Lloyd George on the eve of by-elections in Rangoon.
Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with Dinyar Godrej.
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Today over 80 per cent of Burma’s people are Buddhist and the country has the largest number of monks as a percentage of the total population.
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Two survivors from Karen state, where the Burmese military has been laying villages to waste, tell their stories.
Stop buying Lonely Planet books until BBC withdraws Burma edition.
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Dinyar Godrej on what truly inspires.
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Sullen, unresponsive and boring he may be, but Than Shwe is Burma’s Number One, leader of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. The banality of evil has rarely been more apparent.
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Anti-Muslim fervour is rife – yet is being ignored by the authorities, says Lewis Garland.
Mari Marcel Thekaekara congratulates the country’s Dalit community on finally winning legal protection against discrimination.
‘The Wicked Witch is dead’ but although he’s celebrating, Alan Hughes urges us to fight on against everything she stood for.
Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth?
As Mother’s Day approaches in India, Mari Marcel Thekaekara reflects on how motherhood has changed along with the online communication boom.