Suu kyi myanmar biography of william shakespeare

Shakespeare’s tragedies have heroes but they are not heroic. As the plays unfold you witness their crumbling. In fact, they destroy themselves because the flaw is embedded deep in their character. It’s an inevitable and irresistible process. It’s an outcome that cannot be prevented. That’s why it’s tragic.

I think that could also be true of Aung San Suu Kyi. I’ve known her since I was five. At the time, her mother was the Burmese Ambassador in India, and Suu, as inom have always called her, was an undergraduate at Delhi’s Lady Shri Ram College. Our parents became friends and Suu and my sister Kiran would often drive together to college.

Even as a teenager, Suu was drawn to politics. She sensed her future would ultimately lie in ruling Burma (the name she prefers for Myanmar) and didn’t hide it even if she only spoke jocularly. A pencil-drawn portrait that she made of my sister Kiran, dated 11 October 1962, has inscribed at the bottom ‘Kiran Thapar may be allowed entry into Burma

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First Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi

First Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi

One year ago, the world’s best-known democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Burma, where she had spent 15 of the last 21 years. As she starts making trips outside Rangoon and meeting government officials, Ed Caesar secretly meets with her, and asks if this brutal regime has really taken steps on the road to freedom

Freedom means something different to Aung San Suu Kyi than it might to you or me. Imagine you had been placed under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years – would you consider yourself free? How about if, since being released in November last year, you had been placed under constant surveillance, and had your travel restricted by the ruling military government – the same government you had watched plunder your country’s natural resources for political gain, imprison political enemies, and ethnically cleanse troublesome minorities while you were powerless to influence

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From Burma to Myanmar

On 6 June 2013, Suu Kyi announced on the World Economic Forum’s website that she wants to run for the presidency in Myanmar‘s 2015 elections

It is the smaller, less noticed acts by the few that affect the development of thought and attitude in the many. Quiet, solitary things like books coupled with cultural social events like literary festivals, help to change the world in ways guns and bombs can not. Individuals’ traveling long distances just to talk and listen to talks about books is propaganda you can’t fake. These things are born from a love of reading, thinking, and sharing thoughts via writing. The world is constructed from the strongest and most pliable of materials-WORDS.

 We wanted to see vestiges of Burma before it was all absorbed into Myanmar. Friends told us that ‘visiting the country was like stepping back in time and despite everything it felt rather nice’. Then we learned that the Irrawaddy Literary Festival and Daw Aung San Suu