The last bookshop to be found on Pansodan Street, just before the bridge rises to cross the train tracks and to the left of its more famous competitor Innwa Books, is Yar Pyae. Founded and owned by Daw Khin Swe Win, Yar Pyae opened on January 1st 1999 and is still going strong boasting nearly […]
Though many of the museums in Myanmar have suffered from decades of neglect and underfunding, Mandalay Cultural Museum does hold a few literary gems. The Yadanabon Gazette: In 1854 Mandalay, King Mindon, a reformer of sorts and fully aware of the technological superiority of the invading British Forces to the south, commissioned the first Burmese […]
There seems to be uncertainty as to when the Sarpay Beikman bookshop began. As the book-selling arm of the Burma Translation Society which was renamed to Sarpay Beikmann (House of Literature) either somewhere between 1954 and 1962, it has always been owned by the state …
Ive always admired this building. Perhaps because it stands so out of place in the curve of one of the citys largest roundabouts, far from the downtown townships, where the crush of so many colonial era buildings can often minimise their grandeur. Though the exact date of its construction is unknown, as is the original […]
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