The Guardians of the Metal Trees
by Niranjan Kumar Rai The carbon leaflets are to be checked and replaced daily. They get clogged up pretty quick, and their self-renewal...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 267 min read
Paradox of Solidarity
by Thirteen As of writing this blog, there are at least 10 state-led mass killings in the world, in which Myanmar is one. [1] Having...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 810 min read
The Flowering Chest
by Niranjan Kumar I ask mother if she is well, she says she is fine. She is lying, but I say nothing more as I sit at my desk and pull...
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arunaglobalsouth
Aug 22, 202321 min read
Beyond the Normalized Menstrual Stigma: Insights from Nepalese Women in Myanmar
by VK I vividly recall the moment I held a blood clot in my hand for the first time that had come out of my vagina. I was confused and a...
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arunaglobalsouth
Jun 22, 20239 min read
Nostalgia: A Diasporic Reimagination of Home
by Kathryn Aung and her family This essay is part of Aruna 2023 Publicly Engaged Fellowship Program. Kathryn is one of the 2023 fellows...
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arunaglobalsouth
Nov 18, 20228 min read
သွေးရင်းချာ / Close Relatives
by နွေဦးကံ့ကော် / Nwe Oo Kant Kaw This essay is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo...
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arunaglobalsouth
Nov 11, 20223 min read
Golden Flesh / Shout, Shouk, Lemon / Generational Marrow / Seasons
by Kimberly Zin (poetry) and Justin Lee (art) This poetry is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with...
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arunaglobalsouth
Nov 4, 20222 min read
နိုင်ငံ၊ မိသားစု နှင့် သင့်အနာဂတ်
by xYz This essay is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo Archive. ‘နိုင်ငံ’ နှင့်...
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arunaglobalsouth
Oct 27, 20223 min read
86 ways I could use a knife (or, how I had seen a knife used, once).
by Niranjan This poetry is part of the special series "Through the Light Holes" in collaboration with Myanmar Photo Archive. 86 ways I...
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arunaglobalsouth
Mar 22, 202228 min read
Internal Conflicts of Kachin Ethnicities
Full title: Internal Conflicts of Kachin Ethnicities: Identity Politics Among the Six Tribes of the Kachin Ethnic Group by B Seng (In...
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arunaglobalsouth
Mar 16, 202218 min read
Challenges for Ethnic Political Parties in Myanmar General Elections
Gay Gay, Je Mawk and Naw Kawthoolei Paw (In Burmese) By October 2019, a total of 94 political parties had registered for the 2020...
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arunaglobalsouth
Mar 7, 202216 min read
Perspectives of Bamar Majority Political Parties
Full title: Perspectives of Bamar Majority Political Parties on the Future Federation of Myanmar (In Burmese) By Chandra, PPK and Saoirse...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 28, 20223 min read
Reflections on identity, politics, and nation-building in Myanmar beyond the coup
Introduction (In Burmese) By Sauma The illegal military coup on February 1st, 2021 has durably disrupted the lives of more than 50...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 28, 202217 min read
National Identity in Myanmar
Full title: National Identity in Myanmar Understanding Bamar People’s Perspectives on Burmanization and Ethnocentrism (In Burmese) by...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 17, 20224 min read
The Loneliness of Losing People to Political Violence
by Thu “I am having a headache. I don’t think I can drive anymore,” were the last words he said to my mom. It was then she realized he...
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arunaglobalsouth
Feb 8, 202217 min read
မမ်မိုရီ / Memory
မခြင်္သေ့ / Ma Chinthe (English translation by Nicole Tu-Maung; scroll below for translation) အခုတလော မိုးက မထင်ရင်မထင်သလို...
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arunaglobalsouth
Jan 31, 20223 min read
Thrive / Cold
"I cannot even begin to express the waves of emotions I have felt over the past year. On days when I feel more suffocated than usual, I...
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arunaglobalsouth
Aug 25, 20211 min read
အိမ်တစ်အိမ်ဆောက်တည်ခြင်း / How to build a home
by အဝေး / Away မြေဆိုတိုင်းအိမ်မဟုတ်ပါ မြင်သမျှဟာလှည့်ကွက်မျိုးစုံပရိယာယ်လိုတံလျှပ်လို အာဏာဆိုတဲ့အချုပ်ထဲမှာ တည်ငြိမ်မှုဆိုတာမျက်လှည့်လို...
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arunaglobalsouth
Jun 26, 202111 min read
ပစ်တိုင်းထောင် / Pyitinehtaung
မခြင်္သေ့ /Ma Chinthe (English translation & paintings by Nicole Tu-Maung; scroll below for translation) အုံးခနဲ ထလာတဲ့ အခိုးအငွေ့တွေကြား...
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arunaglobalsouth
May 25, 202112 min read
အိမ်ထဲကနွေဦး နှင့် အခြားပုံပြင်များ / Spring in the House and Other Stories
by Diana ဇော်ဝင်း (English Translation by Diana Zaw Win below) ၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ် ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် အကြမ်းဖက်မြန်မာ့တပ်မတော်သည်...
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