Special post--PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/battling-stigma-the-british-war-artist-who-suffered-posttraumatic-stress-after-stint-on-helmand-front-line-10267709.html

Special post--Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Curse for a Nation--

This photo--from Internet--Rohingya refugees rescued and resting on land--5-23-2015

Photo--New York City skyline from the Metropolitan Museum roof garden.  Photo KM Kaung

Renowned for her love poems, and her love affair and marriage to Robert Browning, after being kept in captivity as an "invalid" for years by her domineering father, I never even knew she was involved in politics.

I could not find my print copy, but here it is--

make sure to open the link and read it--

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-curse-for-a-nation/

for those of you who don't know, she also wrote the quintessential lines

"How do I love you, let me count the ways--I love you to the height and depth and breadth, my soul can reach--"


After she eloped with Robert, they had a son and she spent the rest of her life on the Continent.

Kind words on Kanlaon Blog for my novella Black Rice

https://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/black-rice-a-novella-by-k-m-kaung/

Black Rice is available in both e book (Kindle) and print form on Amazon as K.M.Kaung Black Rice.

Fidsheries Dept has opened legal case against 3 factories putting waste water into Taungthaman Inn (in Burmese)

http://7daydaily.com/story/36589#.VU-N-pO_4nh

My official website--

http://www.kmkaung.com/

Tenth year anniversary of death of scholar Dr Chao Tzang Yawngwe

Here is obituary I wrote more than 10 years ago.  Hard to say RIP for activists, and Yawngwe family's losses were also great.  I saw Harn Yawngwe in Helsinki in 2008 at a Burma meet--kmk 5-7-2015

http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com/2007/05/in-memoriam-chao-tzang-yawngwe-july-25.html?zx=8766cfdc198cde2b