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A loving and joyful sendoff for Pablo Tariman
By Liana Garcellano with a sidebar by Elizabeth Lolarga
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Oct 18, 2025
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Excerpt from a poem by Pablo Tariman: I like the peace that comes with the prospect of dying./ But when you die young you pause and think of the possibilities of a more fruitful life ahead./ Then and now, you learn to appreciate the long and short of a borrowed life.
Questioning the myth-making and memorializing of the Marcoses
By Liana Garcellano
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Oct 15, 2025
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A total of 250 sites scattered throughout the country exalting the “lineage and achievements” of the Marcoses have been catalogued by the project “Have we honored the Marcoses enough?” of the Third World Studies Center at the University of the Philippines Diliman. The project falls under the Marcos Research Regime program, which documents the permanent sites, structures, and objects commemorating the Marcos and Romualdez families.
A day of wine and roses with Pablo Tariman
By Text and photos by Elizabeth Lolarga
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Oct 10, 2025
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Whenever I’d complain aloud to Pablo about the financial challenges of being a freelance writer, he would quiet me down by saying, in his serious baritone voice, “It’s the only good thing we know how to do.”
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