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Thank you, John Gokongwei
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - August 27, 2006 - 12:00am
The brightest news several days ago that should have been emblazoned in the front pages of all our newspapers and greeted with hosannas in radio and television is John Gokongwei’s announcement that he was...
Hiroshima and Us
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - August 21, 2005 - 12:00am
Some 30 years ago or so, I was in Kawazaki near Tokyo attending a conference sponsored by the Afro Asian Writers Union–a Moscow supported organization. During the first plenary session, an Indian communist...
Literature as history
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - June 13, 2005 - 12:00am
(The author gave this lecture at Cubberley Auditorium at Stanford, May 5, 2005.) I am grateful to Stanford, to Prof. Roland Greene and the Department of Comparative Literature in particular, for having me here as...
MANILA 7 DECADES AGO
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - May 9, 2004 - 12:00am
Itook Lulu, my daughter-in-law – a balikbayan – to dinner at one of the Roxas Boulevard restaurants the other night and she saw how the boulevard was spruced up with fancy lights, and food stalls. She had...
When will our youth ever learn?
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - April 18, 2004 - 12:00am
The concern in this campaign season over the Communist Party’s front organizations in our political system should never have surfaced. It is the height of naivete to assume that the Communist Party does not...
TO THE GRADUATING CLASS 2004
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - March 21, 2004 - 12:00am
A generation reared in the primacy of technology and the sciences will find it difficult to justify the importance of the humanities, most of all, the value of literature. Why literature? It does not teach us how...
Can FPJ and Noli de Castro argue in English?
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - December 14, 2003 - 12:00am
If they can’t then they have no business running for president. It is sheer hypocrisy to say that Tagalog is the national language – it is not, not for as long as the language of government, of business,...
Himala: A great Filipino effort
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - November 30, 2003 - 12:00am
Some 20 years ago, I saw Ishmael Bernal’s beautiful but flawed movie, Himala (Miracle). It starred that superb actress Nora Aunor as a village girl whose apparition of the Virgin Mary changes her as well as...
A personal memoir
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - October 19, 2003 - 12:00am
Jim Dalton who helped set up the Asia Foundation office in Manila in 1953 with Bill Fleming dropped by the other day. He is in town together with the foundation brass to celebrate the foundation’s 50th anniversary...
Why are our revolutions unfinished?
by HINDSIGHT By F. Sionil Jose - June 16, 2002 - 12:00am
Was Andres Bonifacio an invented hero? Did Aguinaldo really try to recall the order to execute him? Why are our revolutions unfinished? What was the Revolution really like from the point of view of ordinary men and...
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