On the 160th birth anniversary of Dr. Jose P. Rizal today, June 19, 2021, the Forum invites its members and readers to read and ponder the many remarkable and inexhaustible facets of our country's National Hero as reflected in its various postings over the years. In sum, they show in no uncertain terms that Rizal was a multilingual Filipino and citizen of the world, a great writer and poet, an expatriate and multinational traveler, a scholar of an astoundingly wide range of interests, a quintessential lover of women, a short-lived husband to an unhappy wife, and a peaceable patriot and revolutionary who kindled the spirit of the fight for independence of the future Philippine Republic.
THE RIZAL READINGS:1. "Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?" (June 28, 2010)
2. "Retrospective on Rizal’s 156th Birth Anniversary" (June 29, 2017)
3. Full-color, 176-page hardbound collector’s anthology on Jose Rizal launched (November 27, 2018)
4. Jenny Ortuoste's "Rizal +: History meets literature" (November 27, 2018)
5. "Rizal invigorated Southeast Asia’s revolutionary spirit," says 2011 book by John Nery (June 17, 2011)
