We met Pilandok, Mindanao’s trickster deer, in these pages two years ago (“President Pilandok,” 6/7/16). Promising to pay King Crocodile with his own liver to take him downriver, next he wandered into ...

"Duterte is similar to Pilandok in the sense that for most of his career as mayor, he had to rely on his own devices, no matter how crude they seemed, in order to provide some semblance of order ...

Theater man Frank Rivera’s “Tales of Pilandok” came to mind as I hurried to Google for a reacquaintance. Ah, yes. Pilandok, the trickster mouse deer, whose tales must have tickled the fancy of poets ...

LAST week's column ('My Take on Rodrigo Duterte,' TMT, Nov. 1, 2024) was supposed to include a couple of paragraphs on the similarities between Rodrigo Duterte and the Maranao/Magindanao folktale ...