Min Thu Wun

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Min Thu Wun (Burmese: မင်းသုဝဏ်; 10 February 1909 – 15 August 2004) was a Burmese artist, essayist and researcher who propelled another age abstract development called Khit-San (Testing the Times) in Burma. He is the father of Htin Kyaw, leader of Myanmar since 2016.

Zawgyi(writer)

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Zawgyi (Burmese: ဇော်ဂျီ, conceived Thein Han (သိန်းဟန်, 12 April 1907 - 26 September 1990) was a recognized and driving Burmese artist, creator, abstract history specialist, commentator, researcher and scholastic.

He was one of the pioneers of the Hkit san (Testing the Times) development in Burmese writing hunting down another style and substance before the Second World War, alongside Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry,Padauk container (Padauk blossom), was distributed in Hantha Kyemon handout.

His most noteworthy work was a play titled Maha hsan gyinthu, an adjustment of Molière's Le common gentilhomme, distributed in 1934. His most well known lyric was Beida lan (The Hyacinth's Way) that follows a trip through life's high points and low points, distributed in 1963.

Zawgyi (Burmese: ဇော်ဂျီ, conceived Thein Han (သိန်းဟန်, 12 April 1907 - 26 September 1990) was a recognized and driving Burmese artist, creator, abstract history specialist, commentator, researcher and scholastic. He was one of the pioneers of the Hkit san (Testing the Times) development in Burmese writing hunting down another style and substance before the Second World War, alongside Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry,Padauk container (Padauk blossom), was distributed in Hantha Kyemon handout.

His most noteworthy work was a play titled Maha hsan gyinthu, an adjustment of Molière's Le common gentilhomme, distributed in 1934. His most well known lyric was Beida lan (The Hyacinth's Way) that follows a trip through life's high points and low points, distributed in 1963.

Zawgyi (Burmese: ဇော်ဂျီ, conceived Thein Han (သိန်းဟန်, 12 April 1907 - 26 September 1990) was a recognized and driving Burmese artist, creator, abstract history specialist, commentator, researcher and scholastic. He was one of the pioneers of the Hkit san (Testing the Times) development in Burmese writing hunting down another style and substance before the Second World War, alongside Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe and Min Thu Wun. His first hkit san poetry,Padauk container (Padauk blossom), was distributed in Hantha Kyemon handout.

His most noteworthy work was a play titled Maha hsan gyinthu, an adjustment of Molière's Le common gentilhomme, distributed in 1934. His most well known lyric was Beida lan (The Hyacinth's Way) that follows a trip through life's high points and low points, distributed in 1963.

In 1941, Zawgyi moved toward becoming Librarian at the University of Rangoon. He wedded Saw Yin (B.A., B.Ed.). Amid World War II Zawgyi progressed toward becoming Deputy Director General (Literature and Libraries Division) at the Ministry of Education. After the war he came back to his old employment as Librarian at the University of Rangoon (called Yangon in Burmese), then from 1947 to 1948 Special Officer for the Legislative Council and Elections Office. He was granted the respect of Wunna Kyawhtin for recognized administration by the legislature.

In the vicinity of 1950 and 1952, Zawgyi went as a feature of a designation to Indonesia, Britain, United States, Mexico and Canada. From 1951 to 1957 he was Director of the Textbooks Committee at the Ministry of Education. In 1955 Zawgyi won the Sarpay Beikman "assortment in writing" (sa padetha) prize for Thakin Kodaw Hmaing htika. He then progressed toward becoming Chairman of the Burma History Commission in 1959.

The year 1961 considered him to be Emeritus Professor of Burmese at the University of Rangoon and was granted the respect of Thiri Pyanchi by the administration. He was likewise President of the Technical Terms Committee and the National Literary Awards Selection Committee. He resigned as Librarian of the Universities Central Library in 1967. He was then delegated First Special Officer for Education, President of the Burma Research Society and Adviser for the Burma History Commission.

In 1976 he went by India with Khin Zaw (the writer and interpreter K) where he read a paper on the Ramayana. In 1979 Zawgyi won the National Literary Award for "Nin-la-hè chit dukkha (Damn You, Broken Heart) and Other Short Stories", and in 1987, another for "Old Bagan and Other Poems".

At the point when Zawgyi kicked the bucket at 83 years old, on 26 September 1990, he cleared out spouse Saw Yin and their three little girls, Dr. Khin Myo Han, Dr. Khin Hla Han and Dr. Khin Ohn Han. His family, understudies and partners made the "Zawgyi prize" and "Ganda Lawka Thingaha prize" for extraordinary recognition understudies in Library and Information Studies and Masters understudies in Burmese.

Nandawshay Sayar Tin

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Nandashay Sayar Tin was the most famous Musician and Composer of Myanmar Music history. He was the composer of Myanmar National Anthem. Sayar Tin was born in 1892 at Mandalay.

Theippan Maung Wa

Theippan Maung Wa

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Theippan Maung Wa (Burmese: သိပ္ပံမောင်ဝ 5 June 1899 – 6 June 1942) was a Burmese author, and one of the pioneers of the Hkit San scholarly development. The development scanned for another style and substance in Burmese writing before the Second World War beginning with Hkit san ponbyin (Experimental Tales, 1934, 1938).

U Shwe Yoe

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U Shwe Yoe's original name was U Ba Ga Lay. He was a pioneer famous Cartoonist. Actor. Comedian and Dancer. U Ba Ga Lay invented Myanmar's most famous Dance and Character known as U Shwe Yoe. He was born in 1893. Pathein. the delta region of Myanmar. His parents were U Pho Thi and Daw Thae Mhone. both were teachers of Pathein High School. He died in 1945 at the age of 52.

Ludu U Hla

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Ludu U Hla (Burmese: လူထုဦးလှ; 19 January 1910 – 7 August 1982) was a Burmese writer, distributer, recorder, folklorist and social reformer whose productive compositions incorporate an extensive number of way breaking true to life works. He was hitched to kindred essayist and columnist Ludu Daw Amar.

He gathered oral histories from individuals in a various scope of occupations which incorporated a boatmaster on the Irrawaddy, a bamboo raftsman on the Salween, the guardian of a logging elephant, an intermediary for Steele Bros. (an expansive exchanging organization amid the provincial time frame), a card shark on stallions, an official and a columnist. These were distributed in a progression of books titled "I the - ".

A library of 43 volumes of society stories, a sum of 1597 stories, that he gathered in the vicinity of 1962 and 1977 from the greater part of the ethnic minorities of Burma was a genuinely Herculean undertaking. A hefty portion of these have been converted into a few dialects. There are 5 different volumes of folktales from around the globe surprisingly.

Amid the U Nu period of parliamentary majority rules system, he put in more than three years in Rangoon Central Jail as a political detainee in the wake of distributing a dubious news story in his Mandalay daily paper Ludu (The People). While in jail he met a few prisoners and composed their biographies as told in the main individual account, the best known accumulation of which was distributed in The Caged Ones; it won the UNESCO grant for writing in 1958, and has been converted into English.

Conceived in Pazun Myaung town close Nyaunglebin in Lower Burma, and instructed at the Rangoon Government High School, by the age of 20, U Hla had secured a valuer's position with the Rangoon Municipal Corporation; the Depression had hit Burma coming full circle in a laborer uprising and the establishing of the patriot Dobama Asiayone (We Burmans Association). He joined the Lungemya Kyipwayay Athin (Progress for Youth Club) which began as the Friendly Correspondence Club cum debating society among secondary school understudies in 1926, and his honorable reformist enthusiasm for all-round improvement of the nation's childhood had remained a long lasting energy since.

He lived over the shop in Scott's Market (renamed Bogyoke Market after autonomy) as a visitor, serving as administrator, and showed night classes to kids from poor families in the area. A sharp sportsman, he played football for the Municipal group, practiced frequently and remained a teetotaller all his life.

In 1932 he figured out how to assume control over the distribution of the Kyipwayay (Progress/Growth) magazine after a false begin by the executive U Thein. He had needed to be an essayist and distributer and snatched the open door. The magazine was a win with the vast majority of the day's well known authors on board and with an article dispatch of instructing youngsters in self-change, wellbeing and good train in the battle for freedom and for building another assembled Burma. Standard sections, for example, Maha Swe's Nei Thu Yein's Fearless Doctrine and Theippan Maung Wa's Letter from Maung Than Gyaung pulled in an extensive readership.[1] The Kyipwayay turned into the vehicle for another style and substance in Burmese writing known as Hkit san (Testing the Age), a development began most remarkably by Theippan Maung Wa, Nwe Soe, Zawgyi, Min Thu Wun,Maung Thuta, Maung Htin and Mya Kaytu. He additionally composed articles expecting the nom de plumes Kyipwayay Maung Hla and Maung Kan Kaung. A sincere Buddhist and peaceful reformist on the most fundamental level, he made companions with and his home turned into a most loved frequent of numerous government officials, for example, Aung San, Thakin Than Tun, Thakin Zin and Thakin Ba Koe and also authors, for example, Maha Swe, Dagon Taya, Zawana, P Moe Nin, Thukha, Maung Htin and Dr Maung Hpyuu, columnists, for example, Thuriya U Thein Maung, visual artists U Ba Galay, U Hein Soon and U Ba Gyan, craftsman U Ohn Lwin and weightlifters Ka-ya bala U Shein, U Zaw Weik and U Ne Win. The Thuriya (Sun) daily paper was the place he had begun as a sprouting essayist and where he seemed to have learnt the fundamentals of news-casting and distributing. U Hla was tall, reasonable and nice looking (Hla by chance means nice looking), and known for his agreeable grin, delicate calm way, much temper, clean living and liberality.

At the point when the second college understudies strike in history softened out up 1936, he turned out to be agreeable with one of the best known ladies understudy pioneers, Amar from Mandalay, whose Burmese interpretation of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis he had distributed among her different works in his magazine. They wedded in 1939 and he moved to Mandalay where he kept on distributing the Kyipwayay. He welcomed on board heartland authors, for example, Shwe Kaingtha (a friar from Sagaing and previous paleologist who was at that point one of the Kyipwayay regulars under the name Yadanabon Hpo Hmatsu) and Marla, an old school companion of Amar, notwithstanding the typical stable of scholars, for example, Maha Swe, Zawgyi, Min Thu Wun, Theippan Maung Wa, Zawana, Maung Hpyuu and Maung Htin.

Amid the Japanese Occupation (1942–1945), the Kyipwayay kept on turning out despite the fact that the entire more distant family had fled the war to the wide open north of Mandalay. It highlighted as before social expositions, artistic surveys, and articles on travel, country advancement and wellbeing training. U Hla and Daw Amar converted into Burmese and distributed each of the three top rated wartime books of the Japanese fighter essayist Hino Ashihei:

Soil and Soldiers - Shun hnint sittha (ရွှံ့နှင့်စစ်သား) and
Blooms and Soldiers - Paan hnint sittha (ပန်းနှင့်စစ်သား) by U Hla
Wheat and Soldiers - Gyon hnint sittha (ဂျုံနှင့်စစ်သား) by Daw Amar who additionally interpreted "The Rainbow" (Thettant yaung) by the Polish Communist author Wanda Wasilewska in 1945.
Both U Hla and Daw Amar ended up plainly required in the Resistance development; they shaped the Asha Lu Nge (Asia Youth) in Mandalay, apparently to work together with the Japanese, and drew in mostly in protect and sanitation operations, yet it turned into a prepared wellspring of youthful Resistance contenders for Bohmu Ba Htoo in Upper Burma. U Hla knew that his young individuals were in contact with both the Communist Party and the People's Revolutionary Party (later the Socialist Party) and attempted to ensure them by instructing the incorporation concerning a translator, who worked for the Japanese, on the official board of trustees of the association as a protect against the Kempeitai. At the point when the Allies returned U Hla squandered no time in helping to establish the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL) in Mandalay with Rakhine U Kyaw Yin, who parachuted into Burma with the assistance of the Allies, and Thakin Tun Yin,while Rangoon was still under the Japanese. A famous wartime tune titled Ludu sit (People's War) by A-1 Saya Hnya was co-composed by U Hla and U Kyaw Yin. U Hla was captured and cross examined by the British after they had recovered Mandalay.

Amid the time of post-war somberness, U Hla kept on distributing utilizing any sort of paper that he could get hold of including hued matchbox pressing paper and utilized office paper with imprinting on one side. He would likewise still figure out how to send his new books as endowments, around 200 on each event, to every one of his companions in Rangoon when correspondence lines and street and rail transportation had everything except separated. It was in 1945 that he propelled the fortnightly Ludu (The People) Journal with his better half as aide editorial manager. The next year saw the dispatch of the Ludu daily paper and therefore the couple came to be known as Ludu U Hla and Ludu Daw Amar. Their sharp political discourses and examinations made a huge commitment to the nation's longing for autonomy and brought together battle against provincial run the show. Their productions had never conveyed promotions for liquor, medications to improve sexual execution or betting, nor hustling tips, lewd undertakings and babble. U Hla must be induced to make a special case of film ads for the survival of the paper.

One morning in 1948, not long after Burma picked up her freedom from the British, in any case, the Kyipwa Yay Press in Mandalay was dynamited to rubble by government troops who were irate that the Ludu couple gave off an impression of being thoughtful to the Communists. This was a period when administration change happened regularly with the city falling into the hands, thus, of the Karen revolutionaries, Communists and the new patriot government under U Nu. The whole family, including two pregnant ladies, was tossed out into the road, arranged and was going to be gunned down when various ministers and local people effectively mediated to spare their lives. Albeit just a passionate reformist, if left-inclining, and perceived thusly from the good 'ol days by his companions and partners, the blaming finger for being a Communist by progressive governments was never to abandon him, notwithstanding when numerous in the decision gathering of the day, including Ne Win, knew him by and by. Hardline radicals, then again, viewed him as powerless and uncertain, ailing in progressive duty.

U Hla was a dynamic establishing individual from the Writers Association of Burma and led the Upper Burma area. In 1952 he went to, with Thakin Kodaw Hmaing, Zawana, Shwe U Daung, Dagon Taya and U Ohn Lwin, the Conference for Peace in the Asia Pacific Region in Peking. In October 1953 the AFPFL government detained U Hla under Section 5 for dissidence as a political detainee which generated an entire classification of biographies of his kindred prisoners among others that he distributed after his discharge in January 1957:

Lei hnint a tu (လေးနှင့်အတူ) - Along with the Wind, converted into Japanese
Htaung hnint lutha (ထောင်နှင့်လူသား) - Prison and Man, victor of the Sapei Beikman Award in 1957
Hlaungyaing dwin hma hnget nge mya (လှောင်ချိုင့်တွင်မှာငှက်ငယ်များ) - Young Birds in a Cage, converted into English under the title The Caged Ones and victor of the UNESCO grant for writing in 1958.
Ok solitary kaung gya yè lah (အားလုံးကောင်းကြရဲ့လာ) - Are You All Right?
Yèbaw hnint maung gyi hnama (ရဲဘော်နှင့်မောင်းကြီးနှမ) - Soldier and Maiden
Sit achit hnint htaung (စစ်အချစ်နှင့်ထောင်) - War, Love and Prison 1960, converted into English under the title The Victim.
Za-nee hnint tha thami mya tho htaung dwin hma payza mya (ဇနီးနှင့်သားသမီးများသို့ထောင်တွင်မှာပေးစာများ) - Letters from Prison to Wife and Children
Sit peeza htaung daga (စစ်ပြီးစထောင်တံခါး) - Post-War Prison Gates
Mama nee dè bawa hka-yee (မနီးတဲ့ဘဝခရီး) - Life is a Long Journey
While inside U Hla stayed dynamic sorting out brandishing and artistic occasions for prisoners and welcomed companions from the universe of game, expressions and writing to these exceptional occasions as an extension between the outside world and those inside. He shaped a football group and took up golf. His kindred political detainees recalled that him as having the most guests, and that he was on edge to share all the news and the nourishment from outside. U Hla was a refined open speaker with a prepared grin and extraordinary comical inclination however without pride or bias. He was amicable and gracious and worried with the wellbeing and prosperity of everybody and soon he would move toward becoming U-lay Hla (Uncle Hla) to the more youthful detainees. He would not neglect to visit them in jail after his discharge bringing nourishment, books and even a radio on one event.

The Ludu Daily

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Crown Prince Kanaung

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Crown Prince Ka Naung was a son of King Tharrawaddy Min and Chief Queen Min Myat Shwe. a grand daughter of Hsinbyushin. Prince Ka Naung was the younger brother of King Mindon. one of the most well-known kings in the history of Myanmar. After the Second Anglo-Burmese War. they overthrew their half brother Pagan Min (1848-1853) which put Mindon on the throne. Kanaung became the Heir Apparent in 1853.

Ludu Daw Amar

Portrait of Ludu Daw Amar in her youth

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Ludu Daw Amar (likewise Ludu Daw Ah Mar; Burmese: လူထုဒေါ်အမာ, 29 November 1915 – 7 April 2008) was an outstanding and regarded driving nonconformist essayist and columnist in Mandalay, Burma. She was hitched to kindred author and columnist Ludu U Hla and was the mother of mainstream essayist Nyi Pu Lay.

Dr. M Shaw Loo

The First Myanmar Medical Doctor graduated in USA. Dr. M Shaw Loo has to be the first medical doctor from Myanmar. He was the son of U Shwe Thet and Daw Phwar. They descendants of Mon race and were Christians. It was the time when the First British-Myanmar war was going on. in 1824. Young Shaw Loo lived in Mawlamyine. Mon State with his parents.

Thakin Kodaw Hmaing

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Thakin Kodaw Hmaing (Burmese: သခင်ကိုယ်တော်မှိုင်း, 23 March 1876 – 23 July 1964) is viewed as one of the best Burmese artists, essayists and political pioneers in the twentieth century history of Burma. He is viewed as the Father of Burmese patriot and peace developments and also an artistic virtuoso.

General Aung San

General Aung San was born on 13 Feb 1915. Natmauk. Myanmar. Heaungsan was the Myanmar nationalist leader and assassinated hero who was instrumental in securing Myanmar's independence from Great Britain. Before World War II Aung San was actively anti-British; he then allied with the Japanese during World War II. but switched to the Allies before leading the Myanmar drive for autonomy.

Queen Supayalat

Queen Supayalat next to King Thibaw Min and her sister Princess Supayagyi

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Supayalat (Burmese: စုဖုရားလတ်, 13 December 1859 – 24 November 1925) was the last ruler of Burma who reigned in Mandalay (1878–1885), destined to King Mindon Min and Queen of Alenandaw (actually Middle Palace, otherwise called Hsinbyumashin or Lady of the White Elephant).

King Thibaw

King Thibaw (A.D. 1881-1885) was the 11th generation of the Konbaung Dynasty. King Thibaw was the last king of the Myanmar Monarch. He became the King of Myanmar in 1881 at the age of 16. He was born a royal prince from the Queen mother named as Queen Laung Shay. He was known to be the youngest prince among all his siblings. But as all the princes were killed in different circumstance. he was the only heir left to the throne of the Konbaung Dynasty.

U Thant

U Thant, who filled in as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1961 to 1971. was going the world body when Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was murdered in an air crash in September 1961.

Sayar San

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Sayar San's (1930-1932) real name was U Ya Gyaw. He was born in Thayet Kan. Shwebo District. Mandalay Division. Once he became the leader of anti-British rebellion of 1930-32 in Myanmar. he was known as Saya San. Saya San was a native of Shwebo.

Konbaung

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 The 11 Kings of the Konbaung Period

Sr. Name Period
1 Alaung Min Tayar 1752-1760
2 Depeyin Min 1760-1763
3 Myadu Min 1763-1776
4 Sinku Min 1776-1782
5 Phaungkar Ywarsar Min 1782
6 Badon Min 1782-1819
7 Sagaing Min 1819-1837
8 Tharyarwaddy Min 1837-1846
9 Bagan Min 1846-1853
10 Mindon Min 1853-1878
11 Thibaw Min 1878-1885

King Mindon

King Mindon (1853-1878) was the king of Myanmar from 1853 to 1878. His reign was notable both for its reforms and as a period of cultural flowering in the period before the imposition of complete colonial rule.

History of Myanmar

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 Myanmar has a long and complex history. Many peoples have lived in the region and the history began. The first identifiable civilization is that of the Mon. The Mon probably began migrating into the area in about 300 BC. and their first kingdom Suwarnabhumi. was founded around the port of Thaton in about 300 BC.

King Tharyarwaddy

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King Tharyarwaddy (A.D. 1837-1846) was the eighth king of the Alaungpaya. or Konbaung. dynasty of Myanmar. who repudiated the Treaty of Yandabo and nearly brought about a war with the British. Tharyarwaddy in 1837 deposed his brother Bagyidaw (reigned 1819-37). who had been obliged to sign the humiliating treaty that ceded the provinces of Arakan and Tenasserim to the British.