Touching on individual lives, the novel creates cameos of Indians who migrated to Burma from then British India and the Indians who arrived in the country with the Japanese Army and the Indian National Army. Successive military juntas, and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s courageous yet inconclusive efforts to bring about change. Traversing through historical Burma, the book recounts the country’s strife for independence from colonial Britain and imperial Japan, the post-independence conflicts in the country between the majority Burmese and the ethnic minorities exploding in insurrection by the Karens, the military coup of 1962, the stranglehold of The book tries to show how these influenced the dynamics of the Burmese and the ethnic communities-largely the Karens.
This book tells a story about the shaping of the historical, social, cultural, religious, and political canvas of Burma (now Myanmar) by two powerful events: the British colonial conquest and the Japanese occupation of the country during World War II.
