Hazare in Gandhi's footsteps

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo In the news in India and all over the world is anticorruption activist Anna Hazare who began a hunger strike that led to similar protests in India.The latest issue of Time magazine carries a half-page photo of him with the caption, “Why does Delhi fear this man? Anticorruption activist Anna Hazare is surrounded by admirers at a memorial to Mohandas Gandhi in New Delhi on Aug. 15. Seeking to...

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Philippine e-books on the way

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo We have seen tiny grade school pupils groaning under the weight of their backpacks, with their spinal columns in danger of getting deformed and their physical growth compromised. They have to carry so many books and school supplies on their backs every day of their early school lives. Now imagine all these heavy books compressed into microscopic pixels and uploaded into very light electronic...

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On borrowed earth

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo As I trudged closer to the mountain’s windy peak, the dark jungle slowly broke open. Then, without warning, a million peach-colored flowers surged forward and I was swallowed waist deep in a lush ocean of color. And I thought, what place on earth is this… what undiscovered beauty…. Going up I encountered a moist green snake, insects and leeches, poisonous bulan-bulan leaves. A slip, a fall, a...

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'That she may dance again'

Philippine Daily Inquirer/OPINION/by Ma. Ceres P. Doyo To become an interruption, perhaps a prophet to the Church hierarchy that for so long has denied women of equal dignity and full humanity.” This is the opening line of the foreword of the book “That She May Dance Again: Rising from pain of violence against women in the Philippine Catholic Church” (2011) authored by Sr. Nila Bermisa, a Maryknoll Sister, and published by the Women and Gender Commission...

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