Kidlat Tahimik turns spotlight on ‘kapwa’ and Indigenous ingenuity

Walking slowly into the hall, Kidlat Tahimik chanted a familiar graduation cadence that grew louder as campus journalists enthusiastically joined in. Garbed in a red-and-blue, geometrically patterned “habing Iloco” bahag layered with a black toga, headdress and native overcoat, he reached the stage to share his passion for promoting kapwa — a distinctly Filipino value