I –Friday, Bloody, Friday — The week she died was ominous. I had a sudden attack of arthritis and I couldn’t move without help. Suddenly I had to use a cane. Something ailed me but I refused to see a doctor. For one,...
The years snap back to the past like a terribly stretched rubber band suddenly released to hit the wrist. It’s been 12 years, Marcel. Twelve years since I recounted how they forcibly made you disappear in 1985.
It was in 2010 when I first...
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It was June 1985. Ricaredo Demetillo, 65, poet, verse playwright, literary critic, essayist and author of one novel, had just retired from his teaching duties at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He looked back with satisfaction at his long career as poet...
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Carla Villanueva Manas was no stranger to a stressful but well-managed life.
As former general manager of media outfit CNN Philippines, she’d had a taste...
Text and photos by Bernard Testa
His mother stood uncertain and forlorn before the gathered crowd. Many of their relatives and friends were there to...