Not your usual travelogue

OF the many political books of Roland Simbulan this one, The World is a Classroom: Reflections of a Fellow Traveller, strikes us at a glance as a light book, a travelogue no less of the author’s visits to selected countries (out of thirty-five) as a much sought after speaker / resource person in his career as a professor/ administrator/ regent at the University of the Philippines.

A “fellow traveler” may mean an ordinary tourist or, in political parlance, one who is a sympathizer or a believer of an organization or a cause. As I know him, Roland Simbulan is much more than the latter since he has devoted his student and professorial years in struggle towards national democracy and socialism.