When institutions fail to check authoritarianism, the burden falls to ordinary people. Myanmar's Civil Disobedience Movement shows what's possible: citizens organizing across sectors, refusing coopera...

Almost five years after Myanmar's military seized power in a coup d'état, the nation faces one of the world's deadliest conflicts. The 2021 coup sparked the Spring Revolution, a nationwide resistance movement uniting ethnic armed organizations, civilian defense forces, and a shadow government around a shared vision: establishing a federal democratic republic free from military rule.

Myanmar's junta launches sham elections on Dec 28, 2025, seeking legitimacy for its bloody rule. Condemned globally, the vote excludes widespread territories and relies on coercion, airstrikes, and th...

History of Mindat, the rebel city, from the Tumee revolution of 2021 to its liberation on 22nd December 2024

On December 23, 1941, Japanese warplanes descended on Rangoon, killing between 1,000-2,000 civilians in the first raid. Christmas Day brought a second apocalypse—over 100 aircraft attacked, leaving 5,...

My debut novel, Breaking the Cycle, follows Khin Yadanar, a doctor in the CDF-Mindat, fighting alongside the diverse tribes of Chin State. The Chin resistance—fragmented across dozens of groups but un...

While the world watches Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, Myanmar is fighting an equally crucial battle on another front of the same global conflict. What many see as an internal civil...

Where Ancient Mountains Meet Modern ResistanceBreaking the Cycle invites readers into one of Southeast Asia's most compelling yet lesser-known regions: Chin State, a mountainous sanctuary in northwest...

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