Time for India to wake up to burma

An account of contemporary Burma has an important message for India. Our eastern neighbour is critical for our future but the Chinese are everywhere. Anyone who has read the author’s moving history, River of Lost Footsteps ( 2007), will know that he has considerable talent and sensitivity in telling us about one of the world’s most closed societies. Yet, paradoxically, as Thant Myint- U points out, Burma is now emerging as the new crossroads in Asia.

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