BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
FRAILOCRACY was bitterly criticized by Jose Rizal and the ilustrados in the 19th century. These enlightened propagandists found the triumvirate of...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Gifts
GIFTS come in different shapes, sizes and colors. Wrappers and ribbons are nothing according to one personnel of a mall because...
BENEATH & BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
THERE is nothing permanent in this world but “change.” Dictator Ferdinand Marcos appointed his daughter Imee Marcos as national president of...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Christmas
IT’S HERE. It’s December! The atmosphere carries a happy message in the malls where Christmas songs blare and everywhere colors of...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Heroes and villains
DO YOU know that Jose Rizal was buried without a coffin?
Do you also know that his family prepared a...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Déjà vu?
ONE hundred ten years had passed since the execution of Dr. Jose P. Rizal at Luneta yet his two novels...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Might is right!
THERE are so many concepts about human beings. Thomas Hobbes believes that human beings are by nature bad. If...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
All arrows pointing to dictatorship
THE IDEAL behind a presidential, democratic system of government is the co-existence and co-equal powers lodged in...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Books
I AM happy whenever I see many people in bookstores. This shows they still read books despite the proliferation of reading...
BENEATH AND BEYOND
BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
Balancing: A game nations play
FROM 1939 to 1945 saw the war games played among members of the Allied and Axis Powers....