# Insight Myanmar Insight Myanmar is a beacon for those seeking to understand the intricate dynamics of Myanmar. With a commitment to uncovering truth and fostering understanding, the podcast brings together activists, artists, leaders, monastics, and authors to share their first-hand experiences and insights. Each episode delves deep into the struggles, hopes, and resilience of the Burmese people, offering listeners a comprehensive, on-the-ground perspective of the nation's quest for democracy and freedom. And… Page: Feed: --- ## [Ground Control](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/ground-control) _2026-08-18_ Episode #591: “The war may end, but for years and years, landmines indiscriminately will kill and maim people, quite often children, as well as farm animals, long after the act of fighting has ended.” Ken Maclean, a cultural anthropologist and human-rights fact-finder, traces Myanmar’s landmine crisis from early-2000s interviews with prisoners forced to walk ahead of soldiers through suspected… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/838b1013-7d59-4b54-9c8a-9aa040728a05.mp3) ## [The Feminine Mystique](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/the-feminine-mystique) _2026-08-17_ Episode #590: Chie Ikeya’s work on colonial Burma began almost by accident. Trained as a historian and originally planning to study the Japanese occupation, she found herself in Yangon waiting for archival access that never came. In the meantime, she read Burmese newspapers and periodicals from the early twentieth century, where the notion of the “modern woman” appeared again and again as a source… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3a4d29de-fe4a-4d41-9b7b-2272f2037f2a.mp3) ## [Port of No Return](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/port-of-no-return) _2026-08-14_ Episode #589: The AAS Conference in Vancouver brought together thousands of scholars and practitioners focused on Asia, with Burma emerging as a key topic amid its ongoing crisis. Insight Myanmar Podcast was invited to record on site, capturing a series of short, real-time conversations with participants and sharing these perspectives with a wider global audience. This is the second of a four part… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/f9e232c4-9f86-42fe-ad96-97559d8baedd.mp3) ## [Missing, Presumed Extinct](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/missing-presumed-extinct) _2026-08-13_ Episode #588: Historian Douglas Ober began questioning the standard history of Indian Buddhism while traveling to Bodh Gaya, Sarnath, and other sacred sites in his twenties. The dates he found on buildings and inscriptions did not fit the familiar sequence in which Buddhism vanished, European scholars rediscovered it, Anagarika Dharmapala revived it, and B.R. Ambedkar restored it in 1956. His… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/003bc48e-b09c-48dc-a87b-f7a6dbe4bba6.mp3) ## [Abandoning the Barracks](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/abandoning-the-barracks) _2026-08-11_ Episode #587: Su Thit, the founder of Spouses of People’s Soldiers, frames military defection in Myanmar less as a single brave act than as an extended struggle against survival math. Leaving the institution means losing salary, housing, rank, and the thin protection that comes with uniform. Staying can mean remaining inside a system that demands obedience to violence. She describes the decision… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/3f0f2c11-1a3d-4d86-9ebf-c545da58d831.mp3) ## [Tales of the Tape](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/tales-of-the-tape) _2026-08-10_ Episode #586: This is the sixth installment of our ongoing discussions with Friedgard Lottermoser. Drawing on decades of firsthand experience with Sayagyi U Ba Khin and other teachers, she offers a different account—one that sits alongside the established narrative and quietly complicates it, grounded in her own lived experience rather than directly opposing what came later. Friedgard begins with… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/02230573-866b-4514-ac89-8d9a21710e73.mp3) ## [An Umbrella Policy](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/an-umbrella-policy) _2026-08-07_ Episode #585: “We can’t go back to the normal life, because our country is not even normal,” says Tone Tone, a former psychology student from Yangon, describing how Myanmar’s 2021 military coup shattered any hope of remaining apolitical. In this conversation she is joined by Liberia, a civil engineering graduate who became a strike organizer, and together they recount how violence transformed them… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/42e01639-190d-4468-b805-4174de42f006.mp3) ## [Strong Determination](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/strong-determination) _2026-08-06_ Episode #584: Lora Roy, a longtime Vipassana meditator in the S.N. Goenka tradition, reflects on a lifelong effort to live truthfully from direct experience rather than fear, social expectation, or rigid authority. She traces that orientation back to childhood, when her authoritarian father’s controlling approach pushed her inward. Isolated for long periods, she developed habits of reflection and… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/85f848b5-3d75-4b2a-a918-ee8c488dd651.mp3) ## [Ground Rules](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/ground-rules) _2026-08-04_ Episode #583: “If you can maim them, you can get multiple people off of a battlefield, and it’s also a terror tactic as well.” Collin Mayfield, an American journalist and documentary filmmaker, spent months with the resistance group People’s Defense Force Zoland in western Myanmar’s Chin State in 2023 and 2025. During his second trip, he stepped on an M14 mine near a former resistance police… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/af5a90e5-ca34-4f0a-bc55-990c4869f02a.mp3) ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xzannSwUJM6o) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Open Source Awakening](https://www.insightmyanmar.me/episodes/open-source-awakening) _2026-08-03_ Episode #582: “If you're having weird meditative experiences, I'll be happy to talk to you about those for free. I won't even take a donation.” Daniel Ingram, a physician, meditation teacher, author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha, and cofounder of the Dharma Overground , has spent nearly three decades creating language and support for contemplative experiences that can be mistaken… [Listen](https://pdcn.co/e/pdst.fm/e/media.blubrry.com/insight_myanmar/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/668440d6-459e-420d-94e7-2eabf1d56fc0.mp3)