Writers... Associations... In Translation... Events... Projects......"Nobody can explain what sadaik is and why it was created better than Amitav Ghosh, ? Burma is suddenly the focus of the world?s attention, I find it saddening that the talk about the country is so much focused on politics, money and power rivalries. Myanmar?s writers, and all that they did to keep their compatriots? spirits alive seem hardly to figure in the story, at least in the manner of its telling in the international media." Would it be possible to speak of the end of the Soviet Union without mentioning Solzhenitsyn? Can we think of the fall of the Iron Curtain without thinking of Milan Kundera and a host of other writers? The writers of Myanmar played just as significant a part in bringing about the changes that are now sweeping the country as their counterparts did in Eastern Europe and Russia. That this is so little recognized says a great deal about the world?s vision of culture in Asia. Sadaik, therefore,is a contemporary manuscript chest for the digital world; an online home for the leaves of today?s Myanmar writers. Through news articles, reviews, projects and interviews, sadaik seeks to showcase the literary community in Myanmar and the individuals and institutions that work to promote Myanmar literature and their authors from outside the country..."