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April 30, 2021 13:40 IST
They survived repression, flourished and continued to address injustices in more hopeful times. And miracles do happen
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Exhibition view of ‘A Show of Hands’ by Htein Lin at Goethe Villa, July-August, 2015. (Photo from a ‘PIX’ issue, titled ‘Inclusion’, 2017).
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They survived repression, flourished and continued to address injustices in more hopeful times. And miracles do happen
Who can stop you?
The bright stars did shine once
But who can stop you?
Today… today… change something
Today is for everyone!
My partner recalls her exhilaration when she saw these words projected on the Town Hall in Yangon in December 2016 as part of a multi-disciplinary arts festival, Mingalabar! At once straddling the contours of a shifting urbanism tradition, indigineity, cosmopolitanism Yangon was on the cusp of change.