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K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice now out in Kindle edition

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D0EHGYQ

Thank you everyone who bought it, liked it, sent me kind words -

you make the hours of sitting alone typing worth while -

kmk

Excerpt from request for review of K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice -

An excerpt for a request for a review of Black Rice -

Dear Professor --

I know of your literary interests and wondered if you would be so kind as to review Black Rice.

It is only 48 pages long or short and a recent reviewer called it "riveting".

Also I know of you as a close friend and long time supporter  of Burma -

I hope you will agree to kindly review my work -

It can then be posted on the Amazon site

or anywhere you please.

The other recent reviewer said he would write a full review and submit it with a literary magazine.

If you agree, I would like to send you a review copy.  It is also available now in print form on Create Space and Amazon, and shortly will also be out on various platforms as an e book.

I do hope you will read it -

As you probably know, there are so few of us who think that the "change" in Burma is so far only cosmetic -

Black Rice could have been about yesterday.

Kyi May Kaung

Price of novella Black Rice by K.M.Kaung further reduced to $3.25 on Amazon -

Price of novella Black Rice by K.M.Kaung further reduced to $3.25 & free shipping on orders above $25

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0615797520/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

Riveting - says the latest reviewer -

Dr. Kyi May Kaung has accepted new board membership with Burma Independence Advocates

Accepted new bd membership

http://t.co/Gtqp2DPcJN

Founder Nay Zaw Aung @ London School of Economics.

xcited to work with my colleagues.

About BIA

Mars review of K/M.Kaung's novella Black Rice - link

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/product-reviews/0615797520/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Mars' review of my novella Black Rice on Amazon site -

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mars - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Rice: A Novella (Paperback)

A quick read regarding the Burmese struggle to rid themselves of Japanese occupation and the brutal infighting that resulted after their departure. Many sensorial images told through the eyes of a soldier bring Burma to life. History buffs may want more. This story is just a taste of the terror suffered by the Burmese in the 1940's..

US to help Burma's energy sector be more transparent

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/35204

Conversation with Dr. Myo Nyunt on my novella Black Rice - from Facebook -

• Kyi May, congratulations. A struggle in the struggles. With Metta Sayar

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  Kyi May Kaung Thank you, Saya and Khin Myo - I wrote it long ago, about 1994, when my cousin was still alive. Re-reading it made me remember all the strange Burmese politics my cousins talked about all the time, when I was just a child and coming home from UK, where my father told me on my first day of school that I could ask "the Bobbies" -- the policemen for help if I needed anything. In Burma he bolted the doors carefully at night and told us not to go along with strangers as so many kidnappings of children happened in the 50s. I am glad this story Black Rice is published, as it makes it easier for me to write about Burma in the 50s. Actually, I have written a good deal already, but it all needs more work to be ready for publication, as written on my old Apple computer, in the Rittenhouse Writers Group in Philadelphia.

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Review of K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice, from a reader inside Burma -

·       I have just finished reading your two short stories, non-stop, sitting in a not so comfortable chair, forgetting to stretch my back.  To be totally honest I never imagined you could write this well.

Black Rice describes another true and painful episode coming out of decades of unending armed struggle in Burma.   

All cannot be all bad all the time, is the only tiny silver lining of exceptional hope.

A non-active, quiet Myanmar reader.

K.M. Kaung's novella Black Rice, now $3.79 - be the first to review on line at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0615797520/ref=rdr_ext_uan

Mother eats too much, father is a drunkard - what chance has a dark skinned man in a country and culture that prizes pale skin?

Big excitement for today - K.M.Kaung's novella Black Rice listed on Amazon

Big excitement for today - my novella Black Rice, print version is now listed on Amazon - happy happy happy - and has the "look inside feature"

so you can read first pages -

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1368859043&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=K.M.Kaung+Black+Rice#reader_0615797520

This is the Mother's Day gift I gave myself.

U Thaw Kaung's short address on literature in Burma -

Dr. U Thaw Kaung's short speech at Sarpay Lawka (Literary World Conference)

Summary:  Although I cannot come myself due to health reasons, I am thankful for this chance to speak via video.  I wish first to urge all to read more widely, not just literature, but all kinds of writing.  (People) need to know how fine literature is written and other sorts of writing.  Also, through Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the Daw Khin Kyi Foundation, we are setting up mobile libraries so that everyone, even in remote villages can read.

Many books are in English and so we urge you to translate more -

There is a lot I wish to say, but as time is short also, please let me stop here.

informal translation - kmk

video is on my Facebook page

Thousands of Rohingya stranded by sea as storm approaches -

http://www.dvb.no/news/thousands-of-rohingya-stranded-by-the-sea-as-cyclone-looms/28243

Novella Black Rice by K.M.Kaung - 1947 Burma, race, love, war - On CreateSpace

https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Questions I might ask if I were there -

Some questions I might ask if I were there:

What did you promise Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD with reference to 2015?

Were you behind the racial targeting of Rohingya and other Muslims?

Why do you and your government insist on calling them "Bengali Muslims"?

If you say "Peace" why are you still bombing the Kachin?

What oil and gas and other projects do you have on the table with US firms?

How have you explained your so-called reforms to President Obama?

People say after your USA visit (2nd or 3rd time here) you will get another award.  Is that true?

Do you like Starbucks coffee?

Do you think people can say anything they want when they are sitting in a coffee shop? 

How many political prisoners are there still in Burma - who are they and where are they?

Do you think Rohingya in Arakan in refugee camps are political prisoners?  When will you decide on that?

When will you give farmers back their land?

What is your government's connection to 969?

Why aren't the laborers given a living wage?

Why is the date and time of your town hall meeting in DC not publicized.

What is your favorite food?

If you understand English, why don't answer in English?

Are you nervous when you have to face the western press?

They say your military history is both very"distinguished" and full of oppression - is that true?

How many times a month or how often do you have to report to the one more senior than you?

Why did you resign or was resigned from USDP?

How many people in USDA are still in USDP - how many total number of people.

Rangoon University - glory days clouded - from Wall Street Journal

http://blogs.wsj.com/searealtime/2012/11/02/glory-days-at-myanmar-school-clouded/

PROTEST THIS!

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/34482

He's not a "reformist president" - has made no significant systemic reforms and is presiding over targeted genocide and civil war - There is no reason Presdt Obama and USA should give him a good housekeeping seal of approval.

Tim Aye Hardy's adaptation of important poem out of Nazi Germany -

"First they came for the Mons, and I did not speak up . . . "

Excellent, Tim,

sad sad sad

but

true true true -

Thanks for writing it and posting on line.
kmk

From Tim Aye Hardy's Facebook page:
 

Long and agonizing ethnic conflicts and recent vicious religious violence back in my motherland compelled me to adapt this infamous and provocative poem (“First they came…”) by pastor Martin Niemoller into Burmese version..

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First they came for the Mons,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Mon.

Then they came for the Chins,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Chin.

Then they came for the Kayahs,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Kayah.

Then they came for the Rakhines,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Rakhine.

Then they came for the Kayins,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Kayin.

Then they came for the Kachins,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Kachin.

Then they came for the Shans,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Shan.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Christians,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Christian.

Then they came for the Muslims,
and I did not speak out because I was not a Muslim.

And I did not speak out because I was Bamar Buddhist.
Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

~May peace and love embrace each and every one in Myanmar (Burma).
**********

Adaptation by Tim Aye Hardy

Photo of Rohingya begging to land somewhere - from Internet.