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...Compare that with the way Indians embraced Arundhati Roy after she won the Booker Prize in 1997 with her debut novel The God of Small Things. Sure, Roy wrote in English, but she lives in New Delhi not New York and is therefore considered a worthier Indian writer - as if geographic location is the only true measure of ethnic and cultural fidelity. "Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who write in English, who live in England or America and whom one might have...
...British and Australian officials say the real death toll is many times higher. Unfortunately, last week’s murders were only the latest in a long list of egregious human rights violations perpetrated by the junta. Well over 1,000 pro-democracy activists—including Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi—are now being held in prison and under house arrest. Even more disconcertingly, the Burmese military has destroyed more than 200 villages in the ethnic-minority Karen state, according to Human Rights Watch. The rights group estimates that more than 500,000 Burmese...
Nicholas Handler’s prize-winning essay was written in response to an article by historian Rick Perlstein arguing that American college campuses are no longer the incubators of radical thought they were in the 1960s because of a modern-day obsession with market-centered thinking...
...country's martial links began long before these two generals rose to power. Formerly a ragtag band of freedom fighters, the military helped Burma free itself from British colonialism. Aung San, the father of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, is revered both as an independence hero and as the founder of Burma's army. After independence in 1948, this group of rather beleaguered soldiers transformed itself into a professional force. A Defense Services Academy modeled after West Point opened its doors. The Defense Services Institute took over colonial-era business concerns like shipping...
...Wang, whose “They Chose China” tells the story of 21 American soldiers who were POWs in the Korean War and decided to stay in China after being released at the war’s end. The film won the United Nations Association grand jury prize at the festival’s opening ceremonies last fall. “This film brings the message for peace; [it] is an anti-war film,” Wang says, noting that he has shown the film at festivals in places plagued by violence, like Israel and South Korea...