Addendum

This post is to add a few facts to my earlier post featuring Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, titled ‘Walk On’. Since it was appreciated by a fellow blogger, it is my moral duty to update the same.

Our trusted President Kalam, on the first-ever visit by an Indian head of State to Myanmar, in keeping with the rules of diplomacy, did speak to General Than Swe about the entrenched pro-democracy leader just as he was about to board his return flight. Latter reciprocated by reiterating his commitment in bringing about the desirable political changes in the near future.

What with the aim of building good neighbourly relations aided by economic cooperation and the proposed oil pipeline, guess that was the best possible way of dealing with the precarious situation across the Patkai Bum range.

Ms Kyi, having been confined to her house on University Road for 10 out of the last 16 years, is as resilient as ever. Tucked somewhere in between the grand villas is her dilapidated house with crumbling wooden walls and caving-in roofs, decorated with the tattered red banners (see picture) of her party - NLD (National League for Democracy), which won 80 per cent of the seats in the country’s only election in 1990. The flag features a yellow 'dancing peacock', which has been a sign of freedom in modern Burmese history.


Here’s a tell-all poem by one of the greatest fighters I have had the pleasure of knowing.

In the Quiet Land, no one can tell
if there’s someone who’s listening
for secrets they can sell.
The informers are paid in the blood of
the land
and no one dares speak what the tyrants won’t stand.
In the quiet land of Burma,
no one laughs and no one thinks out loud.

Here’s hoping that in the quiet land, she rises like a phoenix (pun intended) and soars peacefully in the Burmese sky.