this is our land. . . .” In its colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one ...

There was a time, in 1948, when Americans knew Burma as a newly independent British colony in southeast Asia, fully hopeful of joining the world community of free and independent nations.

According to police sources, Saiful has been accused in 29 cases filed with Bayezid, Panchlaish, Chandgaon, and Kotwali police stations. He was expelled from Chhatra Dal in October 2024 due to his ...

Mr. Theroux’s Blair is lonely, angry, lacking in direction; a standard-issue colonial racist ... might have had in Burma. There is certainly no word on the august British author being educated ...

The British colonized Burma in a series of three wars beginning in 1824. During their rule, the Arakan problem declined as the British allowed for a relative degree of local autonomy. From 1824 to ...

LITTLE more than a year ago a most beautifully illustrated, interesting volume on “Burma,” by Max and Bertha Ferrars, appeared, which has been most favourably received. And now we have a ...

In every chapter, seemingly on every other page of Burma Sahib, we hear Blair’s self-talk about his ambivalence, unease, and ...

This month marks 80 years since Singapore, a British colony with significant strategic ... were to be used as slave labor in building the infamous Thai-Burma Railway and for notable landmarks ...

The Burma Star was instituted in May 1945 and awarded to British and Commonwealth forces who served in the Burma Campaign in the Second World War. The Burma campaign was fought in the then British ...

Amitav Ghosh is a popular novelist, journalist, anthropologist and professor whose latest novel, The Glass Palace, addresses the relationship between India and Burma during the British colonial period ...

George Orwell's years in the British Raj ignited a firestorm of ideas that would shape the world’s most iconic warnings ...