Forced from their homes, languishing in camps in Thailand, Karen refugees bring in their new year with musical traditions old and new.
(Himal Southasian, February 2011)
Forced from their homes,
Like most Tibetans born and brought up in exile, I grew up, in India, with a certain idea of my homeland, one that was informed by two extreme but inseparable
Comfortable in her worn longyi and shirt on a sticky afternoon in Delhi, Nang Bawk awaits her usual meal – khao suey, a traditional Burmese broth of beef and noodles. The
