December 2012 – Page 2

Of Fanás and Forecastles: The Indian Ocean and Some Lost Languages of the Age of Sail – 1 of 11

Chrestomather Dec 10, 2012 1 Comments

'Dutch Galleon showing both a forecastle (left) and aftcastle (right) off Mauritius', 1600-1630, Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom (Wikimedia Commons) Bangladeshis, like Armenians and Gujaratis,…

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Another Country: Writers and Censors in Burma, 15 years later – part 2 of 2

Chrestomather Dec 6, 2012 1 Comments

On Nov 17 this year, the Burmese writer Ma Thida and I went to visit the offices of the Press Scrutiny Board in Yangon, the seat of the…

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Another Country: Writers and Censors in Burma, 15 years later – 1 of 2

Chrestomather Dec 3, 2012 1 Comments

On November 14 this year, I returned to Burma/Myanmar after 15 years. During my time there I thought often of the opening sentence of L.P.Hartley’s novel The…

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