About the Book: Myanmar In The World : Journeys Through A Changing Burma
'The first time Abhijit Dutta travelled to Burma, he had booked tickets on a
whim, with hardly any thought as to why he was travelling there at the height of
its hot summer. He landed in Yangon on 31 March 2012, the day before the
by-elections that would make Aung San Suu Kyi a Member of Parliament, the first
of a series of changes that few could have predicted. Her party, the National
League for Democracy (NLD), was contesting elections after Suu Kyi had been
under house arrest for fifteen years under various