From Burma to Myanmar

The Epilogue offers a critique of Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) leadership of the Myanmar government

Myanmar in the World: Journeys Through a Changing Burma

Abhijit Dutta

Aleph 

372 pages, Rs 799

In Abhijit Dutta’s book, Myanmar in the World: Journeys Through A Changing Burma, I was expecting a travelogue.  The author tells his tale through journeys he has undertaken both into the Myanmar heartland and to its ethnic peripheries, but this book is a dense tapestry that draws upon the country’s history, its complex geography and its changing present. It offers a nuanced, if somewhat impressionistic, perspective on the country and its people. Having lived in Myanmar, I found familiar echoes in descriptions of major