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Jonah Basanta García

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Glancing at Ermita: From Rizal Park to Solidaridad

Rosario arrived in Alabang at 2 o’clock in the morning. We needed to wait for the dawn before travelling to our destinations for the...
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On the road with my thoughts at BF Homes

I left the temple before dinner. Dada even asked me if I could stay longer, but I politely declined. I said I needed to...
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Art & Culture

Miong: Emilio Aguinaldo of his time and in our time

Sometimes, if not most of the time, as a Philippine history teacher, I am faced with innocent questions from my students about the events...
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Essay

Roel’s Bookshop and the Sealed Letter

One by one, she unpacked the books from the box. It was not more than an hour ago that I arrived at the bookshop. Though...
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Book of the Week

Expanding the center from Kilometer Zero

Stories would always come from something, from someone; it is an impossibility to just appear on a piece of paper, on a laptop screen,...
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Review

The path to enlightenment: Siddhartha, the musical

Spearheaded by the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order, “Siddhartha The Musical” was staged at The Theatre at Solaire in Pasay City from Oct. 27...
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Book of the Week

“Dutertismo” in focus: An academic discourse

Two years as the President of the republic, Rodrigo Roa Duterte, known as the “Iron Fist of Davao” has gathered a large number of...
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Book of the Week

Pedagogy of poetry in the time of “tokhang”

Slavoj Zizek quoted in his book, “The Years of Dreaming Dangerously,” a Persian expression; War Nam Nihadan which means, “to murder somebody, bury his...
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Book of the Week

Speculating the speculative

by Jonah Basanta García Striping the wands and the sages for the conventional magic show, Dean Francis Alfar’s Salamanca contextualized mysticism for the Philippines. It...
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