Insight Myanmar Podcast

Featuring longform interviews telling the story of #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. We speak to activists, artists, authors, monastics, fighters, and many more.

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Many people in the West view the coup and its violent aftermath in Myanmar as taking place in some far-off, exotic land that has little bearing on our own lives. Please read this 🧵...

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The Architecture Of Exclusion https://t.co/V85aKzstoO

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#youtube Paved By Good Intentions | IMP #451 https://t.co/WKVQCiYirs

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Damian Lilly is a humanitarian policy expert who has spent years working on Myanmar, navigating the uneasy space between aid delivery and political reality. His work sits at the fault line of international response—where organizations try to alleviate su… https://t.co/GtjCKqcMMD

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When the War Comes Home https://t.co/TjpnNXqINT

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Myanmar is too often spoken about in simplified, reductionist terms — flattened into slogans, single narratives, or soundbites that erase complexity and lived reality.

One of the guiding commitments of Insight Myanmar has been to resist that flattening … https://t.co/VxB7YYL0DN

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Sunda Khin’s life sits at the crossroads of Burma’s modern history.

As the daughter of U Chan Htoon, Burma’s first Supreme Court Justice and a key legal mind behind the country’s early constitutional framework, she witnessed the fragile hopes of indepen… https://t.co/poMqpqea4x

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An Officer and a Gentleman https://t.co/Q67WTY90aS

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#youtube Learning To Fly | IMP #450 https://t.co/wm9RDwWo7A

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Cohesion https://t.co/9EsZOcR0rT

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“Food is an easy way to entice people into talking about geopolitics. I host food storytelling dinners to educate about regional food that shows that we are diverse. How are we going to build federalism when we can't even call ‘peace’ on this food? How c… https://t.co/xYFNYlCNCy

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Jonathan Crowley spent more than three decades in the Goenka Vipassana tradition. He sat dozens of courses, served extensively, studied Pali, helped organize prison meditation programs, and eventually became an assistant teacher himself. By the time he l… https://t.co/dxsKeaVxDv

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#youtube Something in the Air | IMP #449 https://t.co/kdpDOCR0AE

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Ariya is a Western Buddhist nun and long-time vipassana teacher who spent decades living and practicing inside Myanmar’s meditation centers, training under respected Burmese Sayadaws while navigating both the spiritual intensity of retreat life and the q… https://t.co/Bb5iudlBS7

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Who controls the land controls far more than territory.

International human rights lawyer Scott Leckie, joined by citizenship and land rights specialist Jose Arraiza, examines how housing, land, and property rights sit at the heart of Myanmar’s politica… https://t.co/zH7asZ3kqi

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#youtube The Practice of Freedom | IMP #448 https://t.co/eCZmdqwpP1

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No Man’s Land https://t.co/6iAFRFOat4

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Saw Bosco is a political activist and peace process insider who grew up in Myanmar’s central dry zone, navigating life as both a religious minority and a citizen shaped by decades of conflict. From advising in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement talks to … https://t.co/L1qX2K97cA

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June — Pride Month. Around the world, it arrives in color and music, in parades and declarations, in the simple right to be seen without fear. But in Myanmar, pride has always carried a different weight. Visibility has never been free. Love has never bee… https://t.co/t7BINsOGpD

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Recorded inside Malaysia’s Parliament during the country’s final stretch as ASEAN chair, Episode 546 looks beyond diplomatic phrasing to the harder question beneath it: what happens when Myanmar’s collapse becomes a regional burden that no country can fu… https://t.co/HckoGRXCij

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From the Other Shore https://t.co/KlvADubjmN