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SEOUL, South Korea — Call her the accidental blogger, because Lila Shahani certainly never planned on becoming one of the Philippines’ most controversial Internet voices.

All she did was write a letter to her uncle last fall expressing disappointment over the government’s response to the deadly Typhoon Ondoy.

Granted, her uncle is former President Fidel V.

Ramos.

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But supporters say the letter contained such elegant, well-reasoned arguments about what was wrong with her country that when the 42-year-old academic posted it online, people took notice.

Shahani has left her Manhattan home for her political and ethnic roots.

She’s back in Manila, writing Notes From an Insomniac. In the post-midnight hours, she composes her thoughts about the intrigues of a nation where many live on less than a dollar a day.

She doesn’t just riff off the news, but hits the street