Bruce Wallace

Bruce Wallace

Bruce Wallace is a Brooklyn-based journalist and multimedia producer. In addition to reporting regularly for The World, he has also contributed to This American Life, The New York Times Magazine, and the Washington Post.

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Tazaungdaing: Myanmar’s Festival of Lights

December 31, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Tazaungdaing, also called Myanmar’s Festival of Lights, happens every year on the full moon day at the end of the eighth month of the Burmese Buddhist calendar.

It closes a month of celebratory offerings to local monasteries, and is marked by street fairs and trips to local Buddhist landmarks.

This year the day fell on November 28th, the first day of a week reporter Bruce Wallace spent in Myanmar.

Photos, audio, and production by Bruce Wallace. Additional photos by Aung Kyaw Myint.

Discussion

One comment for “Tazaungdaing: Myanmar’s Festival of Lights”

  • May Ng

    You have been to Burma to witness change. And taste the fear and optimism– in person. Only you can reflect on those moment and I can feel what you have brought back. After a life time away, seeing Burma through your filtered lenses makes me terribly homesick. I am homesick for a place that no longer exists. But I know that the same people are still there and struggling. I have forgotten about the Tazaundaing festival and a people who celebrate in abandon while avoiding cruelty and violence except when encouraged by the military. I think they deserve a chance at democracy and by giving them a little spotlight you have done your good deed.