Chindwin, an alternative magazine
I S T H I S A P L A C E W H E R E S T O R I E S A R E A C T E D O U T ? Is this the kaaba or
a temple of light? Is something here that
the universe cannot hold? Or is this a place
where stories are acted out? And don’t try to talk to the owner. He’s asleep. Make perfume of the dust and
thrown-away matters here, where the framing
is poetry an
d the kitchen talk pure praise! Whoever enters this room becomes wise. In 2006 we see Chindwin, a monthly magazine, alternative sort which draws its name from one of three largest rivers of Burmese. Rivers should be venerated, declared the editor. The young and educated Burmese enjoy the editorials which are subversive literary pieces. In Chindwin, there is always a piece of writing on spirituality. In view of the editor socially engaged spirituality is greatly in need to create a peaceful world and to reduce loba, dosa and moha (greed, hatred and illusion). Other pieces are writings on sustainable development, biodiversity, ecology and culture. One or two good poems, as well as an article on poetics, and a short story are usually entertaining. Circulation of the magazine is a thousand. Editors are Ko Tar and Ko Lay Myat.
အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ ခ်င္းတြင္းမဂၢဇင္းဟာ ၂၀၁၂ ဧၿပီ ေရာက္ေတာ့ နားပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ဆံုးထြက္တဲ့ ခ်င္းတြင္းမဂၢဇင္းမွာ၊
“ဒီမဂၢဇင္းေလးထုတ္တာ ၄-၅ ႏွစ္ ၾကာခဲ့ၿပီ။ သူက ပရုတ္လံုးလိုပဲ။ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေသးသြားတာကိုး။ … ဆက္မထုတ္ခ်င္ေတာ့ဘူး။ လမ္းမွာ စိုက္တဲ့ သစ္ပင္တစ္ပင္။ ဒီသစ္ပင္ဟာ မဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳး မစည္မပင္ဘဲကိုး။ … စိတ္လက္ၾကည္သာ ျပန္လည္လာေသာ္ ျပန္ထုတ္မယ္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ထုတ္ခ်င္မွထုတ္မယ္။ ခုေတာ့ နားဦးမဗ်ာ။”
အဲသလို အယ္ဒီတာမင္းက ဆိုေလေတာ့၊ ခ်င္းတြင္းမွာ ဖတ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ စာလိုမ်ိဳး ဒီလို fan page မွာ တင္ေသာ္ အက်ိဳးမရွိပါလား။ အဲလိုစိတ္ကူးနဲ႔ ခ်င္းတြင္းမဂၢဇင္း fan page ကို တင္လိုက္တာပါပဲ။
