VERA Files
Text and photos by LUIS LIWANAG NATURAL disasters and extreme weather phenomena have become so routine lately that to hear the impending landfall of another supertyphoon failed to whet my […]
By JB BAYLON LAST Easter Sunday I watched PBA games live, sitting for the first time in the venue called The Arena at the Mall of Asia. I was […]
By ROLAND SIMBULAN
YOU were snatched from us “as swift as the wind” as you were on your way to meet your high school batchmates that fateful evening of May 13, 2011. Your life and character, as eulogized by so many, personified you as “gentle as a forest, fierce as fire, firm as a mountain,” to borrow from Sun Tzu.
By ELIZABETH LOLARGA “And in keeping with his oft-repeated philosophical belief that novels should enhance and amplify life, not merely recount it, he has taken some liberties with history. But […]
Jesse (not his real name), a trusted henchman of the Ampatuans, narrates his role in the Nov. 23 massacre and subsequent coverup in the following account: I DID not have […]
By CHIT ESTELLA FOR someone who had undergone much sorrow and pain, Corazon Aquino laughed easily and well. People unaccustomed to hearing the former president laugh would quickly turn around […]
By NICO CARTALLA WE departed the island of Seychelles in the Indian Ocean on April 6 for a 21-day trip that would bring us back to the Mediterranean port of […]