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Miranda bombing: Beyond the scars
Fifty years ago, on the night of Aug. 21, 1971, two grenades were lobbed at a Liberal Party rally at Manila’s iconic Plaza Miranda, killing nine people and nearly wiping out the then-opposition’s top guns.
Among the wounded: Jovito Salonga, who would become the...
The Birth of Bikoliana Klasika
Allow me to highlight the work of translation as an integral part in writing our literary histories. For it is very seldom that we consider translation or a trans-creation or an adaptation as part of what we may call as the “literary canon.”
Devoid...
My aunt and her Singer sewing machine
It was hidden for ages together with other stuff dumped in the utility room of our family home and forgotten, probably rusting—my aunt’s old Singer sewing machine. I have not thought about it until I built that little house connected to my primary...
Seed giving, seed swapping & heirloom seeds
Text and photos by Bernard Testa
Percy Duclayan is a long-time welder at the Balili Stainless Steel and Allied Works in Ligtasan, Antipolo, Rizal. But the 16 years he spent raising a family on the rolling hills of Rizal province have not made him...
