Chapter-8

2018, May, Star Art Gallery, Bosunpat Street, Yangon

On a day in the first week of May, Lin had to attend a meeting for the heritage festival at Star Art Gallery on the lower block of Bosunpat Street (formerly known as Maung Htaw Lay Street). He had to walk down from Sule Bus Stop to reach the gallery.

On the way, he saw street vendors who sold pieces of corn for pigeons because people liked to feed them on the pavement. He also found bird cages and some kinds of sparrows were tweeting wildly in them. He walked down two more blocks to reach Bosunpat Street from the junction of Sule Pagoda Road and Mahabandoola Road.

When he reached the corner of Bosupat Street, he turned left to walk into the street, looking for the art gallery which he had not been to before. Then, a story about the street came into his head.

It was related to the former name of the street because at first it was called Maung Htaw Lay Street. In fact, it was nam