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For all its flaws and its difficulties, classroom education in the Philippines is still crucial in the development of literacy and good citizenship. Who would ever forget one's elementary teachers with all their quirks and their foibles? How about the teacher's pet who volunteered to buy Nutri Bun for the teacher and ended up being in the canteen for hours? 
Multi-awarded
scriptwriter and playwright [[Ricky Lee]] surprised many with the release
of his
first
novel
,
Para kay B (O Kung Paano Dinevastate ng Pag-ibig ang 4 Out of 5 sa
Atin)
. Lee
said
writing prose is his first love and so to reacquaint himself with an
old flame, the writer went on hiatus fo...
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The
two decades of dictatorship by
Ferdinand Marcos
is embedded deeply
within the Filipino psyche. How else to explain the vast number of
literature examining, critiquing, and reliving the turbulent period?
Poetry, short stories, novels and even graphic novels have explored
life under
Martial Law
....
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The
novel
Mga
Ibong Mandaragit
was first published in 1969, a year before its author,
National
Artist for Literature Amado V. Hernandez
died and about 13 years after being released from a
five-and-a-half-year imprisonment due to charges of rebellion with
murder, robbery and arson.
[[Manila]] has a dark side we know nothing about: where [[white lady|white ladies]], [[tikbalang|tikbalangs]] and elementals roam the streets; where “ tabi tabi po ” is more than just a superstitious mantra; where superheroes and superstars meddle with forces that prove too great for t...
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