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1949
room India
Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon (My husband went to Rangoon)
"Mere Piya Gaye Rangoon" (My husband went to Rangoon), from the 1949 hit movie Patanga, is one of the mosst famous songs in India. For many Indians, Rangoon was once a place of prosperity where you could reinvent your life and be free; one Indian family now living in the United States refer to Rangoon as it was their "first America". In this song, the wife talks only of missing her husband. The husband, calling from Rangoon, tells her he...
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The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.