George Orwell's British Club in Katha, northern Myanmar
This is the old British Club in Katha, one of the key locations in George Orwell's classic novel, 'Burmese Days'. It is no longer used as a club, but visitors are free to wander around and see the interior.
For more information on Katha, go here
Visiting George Orwell's Burmese village
Rina Crick tells the Orwell Society about her family's trip to Katha, Myanmar. Orwell was a police officer there in the 1920s and based his first novel, Burmese Days, on his experience of the British Empire. Now the authorities are trying to turn it into a tourist attraction.
AGM, London, 27 April 2019
Fight to Save Orwell's Burmese Inspiration in Katha Town Katha District
Katha , George Orwell and Burmese Days ( by AFP )
In this time I miss mentioned the red house must be Orwell's house In this video in 2013, later I knew this red house is Deputy Commissioner's House , George Orwell's really house is Head Quarter Assistance Police's house , and police major live in this house now , so I replied where is the Orwell's house in Al Jazeera media
in 2014 .
Nyo Ko Naing
(This video Published on Sep 11, 2013A conservation battle is being waged in northern Myanmar to save the buildings depicted in George Orwell's first novel, Burmese Days. Duration: 02:57)
Katha Town ( June 6 , 2016 ), video by Ko Chake ( Maw Lu )
KATHA ( Katha District ,Sagaing Division, Myanmar )
In Katha the remote town in northern Burma where George Orwell set Burmese Days Novel.
According to my reading of a sketch - map Orwell drew to show the real - life geographical setting of Burmese Days in Katha.
( From ' Introduction to Burmese Days ' in Burmese Days Novel ,2009 edition.
British club in Katha Myanmar -
The British Club in Katha, where male characters of George Orwell's Burmese Days lounged and drank tumblers of whiskey and gin. It now houses offices of a cooperative association ,if u are planning to visit this place stay in KATHA HOTEL and walking distance to this place .
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Katha Market June 6 , 2016
Our Burmese Days - PREVIEW
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An examination of biculturalism wrapped in an extraordinary personal odyssey. Our Burmese Days is also a fascinating defacto glimpse of life in a country that's rarely covered in the media today. Now known as Myanmar, the film's title is a reference to the novel Burmese Days by George Orwell, who worked for a time in the country's colonial police force.
This record of a daughter's attempts to understand her mother's denial of her roots because it is too complicated a story to tell reveals a family history that is both as tragic and as comic as any and yet unique when seen in the context of their colonial past. U.K.- born director Lindsey Merrison spent the first half of her life not even knowing that her mother, Sally, was Anglo-Burmese. Speaking in impeccable English, and claiming she came from Hemel Hempstead (a byword for white, middle-class respectability) the latter never referred to the country she left in the early 1950's.
အင္းေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေမာ္လူးေဒသက White city( Maw Lu Village , Indaw Township, Katha District )
DEDICATION OF THE CHINDITS MEMORIAL
WHITE CITY, MAWLU
by
77th BRIGADE
17 March 2016
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The new 77th Brigade was formed in 2014 and is named
after 77th Indian Infantry Brigade, which was commanded
by Orde Wingate in Burma in 1943 and also formed part of
a much larger Chindit operation the following year.
The new Brigade has adopted the column structure and operational traditions of
the old 77th Brigade .
As cyber warfare, intelligence gathering and subterfuge move centre stage,
so 77th Brigade has a key role to play.
It was therefore very fortunate and appropriate that Brigadier Alastair Aitken and
the party from 77th Brigade, who were on a Battlefield Study tour of Burma (now Myanmar),
were able to hold a brief ceremony of dedication of the new Chindits Memorial.
“We arrived in Mandalay on Tuesday 15th March and the following evening boarded a chartered private train –
nicknamed the Chinthe Express – for our two-stage journey north, far from the usual tourist trail.
On arrival at Mawlu Station we were met by the members of the Mawlu Heritage Trust,
their friends and their families.
These included twenty delightful schoolchildren, the first of whom held a fine bouquet of roses,
which she thrust into the welcoming – and rather surprised – arms of the Brigadier,
while their proud parents kept them in order from the second rank.
From the station, where there were almost as many armed guards as members of our party,
we were escorted to a hall, in which there was an excellent Chindit exhibition, complete with specially printed posters,
audio visual aids and many original items, including an aluminium glider pilot’s seat. It was all rather overwhelming.
We learned later that much of the credit rests with Win Shwe (aka Ko Chake), his close friend, Nyo Ko Naing,
an authority on George Orwell in Burma, and the nascent Mawlu Heritage Trust.
There are now realistic hopes that 77th Brigade will support the Mawlu Heritage Trust in its endeavours to honour
White City and the Chindits with a Chindit section in their proposed historical and cultural museum,
thus encouraging tourists to visit relatively remote Mawlu.
“From Mawlu, we were taken in a convoy of SPVs to Henu, the site of the White City stronghold,
so called because of the parachutes that festooned the surrounding trees in the spring of 1944.
White City was established by Brigadier Mike Calvert and his 77th Indian Infantry Brigade
after a furious hand-to-hand battle on Pagoda Hill, where Lieutenant George Cairns earned a posthumous Victoria Cross.
We had a remarkable view of the crucial railway line, the light aircraft strip, from where the Stinson L-5 Sentinels evacuated casualties,
and the Douglas C-47 Dakota strip, where supplies and heavy equipment were brought in.
In this instance, sitting astride the main Japanese logistical artery, while dominating the ground of tactical importance,
made eminent sense to the strategists in our party.
Turning paddy fields into airfields, often through the use of sympathetic local labour, was a practical and logical strategy,
after which bulldozers, anti-aircraft guns and artillery could be flown in, thus bringing the White City stronghold to fruition. 7
7th Indian Infantry Brigade, 3rd West African (Nigerian) Brigade and 14th British Infantry Brigade all fought valiantly
to defend this hard-won territory.
“It is always humbling to visit places where great bravery has been demonstrated –
by both sides – particularly when the ground has scarcely changed in the intervening period, as at White City.
The Mawlu Heritage Trust and local dignitaries were present in impressive numbers when a brief service of dedication
and commemoration took placed on O.P. Hill.
This small hill is just across the road from Pagoda Hill and both were within the perimeter of White City.
Brigadier Alastair Aitken unveiled a ‘faux’ Chindit plaque on a memorial on which the cement had set only that very morning.
Sadly, the bronze plaque itself, which was specially cast in England, had been detained by Customs in Yangon,
so the resourceful Nyo Ko, a graphic designer and member of the Mawlu Heritage Trust,
printed and mounted a photograph of the plaque which saved the day! I understand that all has since been resolved
and that the plaque is now in place.
“After a brief but very welcome visit to a tea-house in Henu, we returned by vehicle to Mawlu and re-boarded the Chinthe Express
for our onward journey north to Namkhwin, the site of the Blackpool stronghold, before visiting Mogaung and Myitkyina,
from where we flew to Yangon and thence home.”
Fight to save Orwell's Burmese inspiration
A conservation battle is being waged in northern Myanmar to save the buildings depicted in George Orwell's first novel, Burmese Days. Duration: 02:57
General Aung San Museum & U Thant House
General Aung San is known as a revolutionary and the founder of the Tatmadaw, the Myanmar Armed Forces. He is considered as the father of the modern day Myanmar. He was responsible for bringing independence to Myanmar after British rule.
He is also the father of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္လို႕ လူသိမ်ားျပီး ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ ကိုတည္ေထာင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ ဖခင္လို႕လည္းေခၚတယ္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ျဗိတိသ်ွလက္ေအာက္က လြတ္ေျမာက္ေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့တယ္။
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕အေဖလည္းျဖစ္တယ္ေလ။
We also went to U Thant House where we discussed the global challenges that face Myanmar and the world. U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and served at UN Secretary General for 10 years – from 1961 to 1971.
ေၾကးမံုတို႕ဦးသန္႕အိမ္ကိုလည္းသြားခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ အဲ့မွာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံနွင့္ ကမၻာကရင္ဆိုင္ေနရတဲ့ တစ္ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာစိန္ေခၚမွုအေၾကာင္းေတြကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ဦးသန္႕ကျမန္မာနိုင္ငံရဲ႕ သံတမန္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္ ျပီးေတာ့ ကုလသမၼဂမွာ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးအျဖစ္ (၁၉၆၁ မွ ၁၉၇၁)ထိ ၁၀နွစ္တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့တယ္။
We gathered valuable experience going to these historic places. We also took many pictures. What a great day!
ထိုကဲ့သို႕ သမိုင္း၀င္ေသာေနရာမ်ားကို သြားေရာက္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ေၾကးမံုတို႕အတြက္ တန္ဖိုးရွိေသာအေတြ႕အၾကံဳကိုတစုတေ၀းတည္း ရရွိေစပါတယ္။ ေၾကးမံုတို႕ ဓာတ္ပံုေတြလည္းအမ်ားၾကီးရိုက္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။
“ေကာင္းမြန္ေသာေန႕တစ္ေန႕က ဘာလဲ”
Pegu Colonial Club - Yangon - Myanmar 3#
International Museum Academy Myanmar
The British Council is implementing “International Museum Academy Myanmar (IMA Myanmar)” project in close collaboration with “Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture” to form a strategic alliance and partnership with a long term vision to safeguard Myanmar’s rich cultural heritage through institutional support to the under-resourced museum sector as well as the professional development of museum professionals to significantly raise Myanmar’s museum sector to international standards of best practice.
As part of the IMA Project, British Council has been organising research and training programmes with different UK partners since 2014 until now to continue professional support to museum staffs all over the country. In this documentary, you will hear voices from UK partners as well as the Museum professionals about the situation of the Museums across the country and development and future of the Myanmar Museum sector including the professional skills of the museum staffs.
Burmese Days | Family Trip to Myanmar
A short video highlighting some of my family's adventures during our trip to Burma in December 2012.
Video Orwell's 1984 Summary www elitesplanetblog com
Born Eric Blair in India in 1903, George Orwell was educated as a scholarship student at prestigious boarding schools in England. Because of his background—he famously described his family as “lower-upper-middle class”—he never quite fit in, and felt oppressed and outraged by the dictatorial control that the schools he attended exercised over their students’ lives. After graduating from Eton, Orwell decided to forego college in order to work as a British Imperial Policeman in Burma. He hated his duties in Burma, where he was required to enforce the strict laws of a political regime he despised. His failing health, which troubled him throughout his life, caused him to return to England on convalescent leave. Once back in England, he quit the Imperial Police and dedicated himself to becoming a writer.
BURMESE DAYS
A trip to Myanmar with Samuel Partaix, Phil Zwijsen & Bastien Duverdier filmed in november 2012
More infos about skateboarding in Myanmar on :
Filmed & Edited by Guillaume Périmony.
Additional filming by Phil Zwisjen.
Supported by Vans, Carhartt, Dakine, Antiz & Liveskateboardmedia.
Musics :
Mandalay 1 : Khun Paw Rann - Toe Kay Maw Tam
Mandalay 2 : Khin Kam - Saing Saing Maw
Naypyidaw 1 : Khun Paw Yann - Hopes and Goals
Naypyidaw 2/Bagan/Yangon 1 : Lashio Thein Aung - A girl among girls
Yangon 2 : Khun Paw Rann - Arr Nge Mi Dae
Credits : ????? - ?????
โรงเตี๊ยมนักเดินทางสถานีทาซี พม่า Tea House Traveller at Thazi Station /Beautiful Myanmar
Insein Min Ko Naing day 2 P119 March 2017
Marching Toward Myanmar Embassy (Part 2)
Bank blast kills two, injures 11 in northern Myanmar
Two people are killed and 11 wounded after a bomb exploded at a bank in northern Myanmar, officials say, amid continuing violence despite a fraught peace process. IMAGES
moving home
moving house in Daw Ta Naw village, Myanmar.