Career
In 1933, he joined the Dobama Asiayone, an indigenous anti-colonial organization where he earned the honorific "Thakin," (lit "master"), which was used in protest of British colonialism (since it was customary practice to address the British as "Thakin"). After passing the matriculation exam in 1934, he went onto the Rangoon Medical College (now University of Malaya-1 Yangon). However, he dropped out and pursued journalism instead.
Throughout his journalism career, he wrote for the Kyipwayay ("Growth") magazine, and the Totetyay ("Progress"), the Journal Kyaw (along with Chit Maung), and the New Light of Burma newspapers.
In the mid-1960s, he was detained again in Insein Prison. Although he was sentenced to 7 years of hard labor, his sentence was commuted the following year, after the visit of American congressman Tony P. Hall.
He was cremated at the Yayway Cemetery in Yangon.
