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After the coup: Will literature in Myanmar and the Irrawaddy Literary Festival be the same again?
Novelist Dipika Mukherjee reflects on the festival she attended in 2019, and on the fate of writing in Myanmar. 2 hours ago Irrawaddy Literature Festival: Panel discussion on Indian literature with Murzban Shroff and Dipika Mukherjee, moderated by Zaw Thun.
The first time I attended the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Mandalay in 2014, I was dazzled. Irrawaddy. Mandalay. Bagan. The words tripped off the tongue poetically, redolent of Rudyard Kipling read on wide tropical verandahs in the monsoon. Mandalay is home to the Kuthodaw Pagoda, a Buddhist stupa known for containing the world’s largest book; 729 pristine white domes stretch to the horizon as far as the eye can see, each containing a marble slab inscribed on both sides with a page from the Buddhist text, Tripitaka. A bibliophile’s dream, it is like walking in the middle of an ancient open book.