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Along the other Mandalay Road

The quiet route that leads from Balestier Road to the big hospital on top of the hill at Jalan Tan Tock Seng, traverses a myriad of roads and streets thematically named, since the 1960s, after Burmese cities. This unusual legacy and lattice of  evocative names (e.g., Moulmein, Mandalay, Martaban, Irrawaddy, Pegu, Bassein, Shan, Akyab,) lends…