This book theorizes a philosophical framework for educational policy and practice in the southern Philippines where decades of religious and political conflict between a minority Muslim community and the Philippine state has plagued the educational and economic development of the region. It offers a critical historical and ethnographic analysis of a century of failed attempts under successive U.S. colonial and independent Philippine governments to deploy education as a tool to mitigate the conflict and assimilate the Muslim minority into the mainstream of Philippine society and examines recent efforts to integrate state and Islamic education before proposing a philosophy of prophetic pragmatism as a more promising framework for educational policy and practice that respects the religious identity and fosters the educational development of Muslim Filipinos. It represents a timely contribution to the search for educational policies and practices more responsive to the needs and religious identities of Muslim communities emerging from conflict, not only in the southern Philippines, but in other international contexts as well.

Intended to fill a void in critical writing on Philippine musical literature - reflective and analytical discussions of important markers in contemporary Filipino musical life.

The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic heritage), language, scripts and folklore, performing arts, painting and sculpture, architecture, role of the Indian Diaspora, contemporary cultural interaction, etc.

The following epic is strange as it is stunning. I could not imagine how my people got hold of such a work of genius. It is the World's longest epic now that it has been translated into the English language.The writer was the first among men to have imagined TIME TRAVEL. Diving into the lake, the hero of one of the episodes found himself in another place and time. He was completely amnesic of who he was. He wandered in the place, built a family and shirred two sons. When he remembered who he was, he suddenly found himself gasping for air. He was drowning and when he surfaced, he found his wife exactly where he left her bathing. He was obviously time transported back in time because in the later part of the epic story, he met his two grown-up sons meaning at some stretch of time, there was two of him coexisting - the genre of Hollywood movies.