Write a short note about ‘Irrawaddy Literary Festival’.
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It is the smaller, less noticed acts by the few that affect the development of thought and attitude in the many. Quiet, solitary things like books coupled with cultural social events like literary festivals, help to change the world in ways guns and bombs can not. Individuals’ traveling long distances just to talk and listen to talks about books is propaganda you can’t fake. These things are born from a love of reading, thinking, and sharing thoughts via writing. The world is constructed from the strongest and most pliable of materials-WORDS.
We wanted to see vestiges of Burma before it was all absorbed into Myanmar. Friends told us that ‘visiting the country was like stepping back in time and despite everything it felt rather nice’. Then we learned that the Irrawaddy Literary Festival and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was its patron and would be participating at the festival. We decided the festival was the perfect opportunity to experience a unique culture in transition and if we were lucky, catch a glimpse of ‘The Lady’.
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The Irrawaddy Literary Festival is a not-for-profit event run entirely by volunteers which celebrates Myanmar and international writers. It is planned to take place regularly every one or two years in Myanmar. The inaugural Festival was described by the (then) British Foreign Secretary, William Hague, as having “achieved more for freedom of speech in one afternoon than most of us manage in a lifetime.”[1] The inaugural Festival was held at the Inya Lake Hotel in Yangon, subsequent Festivals have been held at the Mandalay Hills Resort Hotel in Mandalay.