Andrew Hall

Anthropologist, research analyst and diplomat (retired) - Nepal and India.

[UK in Myanmar 🇬🇧 @ukinmyanmar]

Today we remember the 33rd anniversary of the #8888uprising in #Myanmar - a nationwide pro-democracy movement, which began 🇲🇲 transition from military rule to democracy.
Hear from our ambassador, @PeteVowles here.

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

Please can we have an update from the CEO on the current situation in the light of revised French entry requirements.

https://t.co/kOZYrHoNG1

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@Koefnielsen I have a similar reaction to the elderly grey-haired gent who greets me each morning in the bathroom mirror... Grandad, what are you doing here?

[Norbert Elekes @NorbertElekes]

On this day in 2020: Coronavirus whistleblower doctor Li Wenliang dies

[Kanak Mani Dixit @KanakManiDixit]

"With a million Uighurs in Chinese prison camps, the forests of the Penan in Sarawak laid waste, the very homeland of the Inuit melting from beneath their lives - never has the voice of anthropology been more important. But it must be spoken to be heard."
https://t.co/gA3iK5CSxN

[Jon Snow @jonsnowC4]

Fitness trainer unwittingly has the Myanmar coup unfolding behind her! https://t.co/fX2I6irnZz

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

In the early 2010s when things looked like they were going inevitably in a good direction, no one felt the need to do much homework (including on the past efficacy of sanctions) and assumed the best. It's probably time to do a lot of the homework now.

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

And any effective international approach will also need to understand the unique psychology of Myanmar's political elites, shaped by decades of violence, isolation, poverty, and oppression as well as the deeply conservative and hierarchical nature of its mainly Buddhist society.

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

The Myanmar generals have always been motivated by power not wealth. Their friends and enemies are all within the country. The rest of the world barely matters. Their creed is nationalism and their dream is to end the country's 75 year old civil war on their terms.

[C Koefoed-Nielsen @Koefnielsen]

It’s a long read, but pretty compelling.......some great anecdotes

[Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu]

I was having flashbacks to debates and discussions 10-15 years ago about how to deal with the Burmese military regime, Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, possible engagement, the impact of sanctions, etc. And then I realised it was Groundhog Day. https://t.co/7ZEqrrl4Qc

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@plkyostila Ahh, memories of the Embassy gardens in Kathmandu come flooding back. Not this season of course, but in May. Do you remember the lovely trees on the Tundikhel in blossom? Many of them sadly chopped down now.

[Nepali Times @NepaliTimes]

On #WorldPostDay2020, is Nepal entering the post-Post Office era?

While other countries’ #postal systems have reinvented themselves for the digital age, #Nepal’s General Post Office has not yet got the message. @AasMishra

Report and video here:
https://t.co/Y58nKrRcyl

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@Koefnielsen Have a look at Hotel Salvation, dir. Subhashish Bhutiani. Not too many laughs - it's about preparing for death in Banaras - but very nicely done.

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@KanakManiDixit Brian Hodgson, British Resident, writes about planting them at Kakani (Koulia) in the 1830s. The ideal altitude/climate & they probably did well. By the 1970s they were a critical part of the agricultural economy a little further north, in Rasuwa and neighbouring districts.

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@Koefnielsen Followed some years later by Photograph, although not quite as sweet as The Lunchbox still worth a look.

[Nepali Times @NepaliTimes]

Nepal’s #tourism now has to re-start from zero

As #COVIDー19 wrecks the industry, @lisachoegyal take a nostalgic look back at Boris Lisanevitch, Father of #Nepal tourism and his Royal Hotel, once considered one of the most interesting hotels in the world.
https://t.co/DAtNd806C7

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@HistoryToday Some people say that the Hound of the Baskervilles was a Great Dane...

[Andrew Hall @Roteley]

@Koefnielsen Yes, take that James Bond fellow for instance! Denis Hopper gives good '50s psycho, as you'd expect. Several screen versions of TTMR also available, but somehow none quite hits the mark...