Class, Caste: Cultural labels?Volume 26 Issue 1

> La presse se regroupe autour du Général Rios Montt lors de son entrée dans la salle.

special-report

22-04-13

MASSACRES DANS LES VILLAGES Mary Ellen Davis: “À leurs yeux, nous n’étions pas humains.” Le début d’un procès historique: le général Efraín Rios Montt accusé de génocide Read more...

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art

21-04-13

Eight pieces of art Dominique Normand: Dominique Normand provides us with eight pieces of art and four answers to questions posed by Serai’s Nilambri Ghai. Your Read more...

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short-story

30-03-13

GHUNGHROO Anushree Varma: I woke from nightmare into the vast bed. The magnificent coral bed carved into figures of men and dogs, with Read more...

Douglass Street Music Collective, Jan 29 2013. Charity Chan (w/ Tim Dahl). Credit: Peter Gannushkin

music

25-03-13

The Montreal Music Underground Paul Serralheiro: It’s Tuesday night in the back room of le Cagibi, a café in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal Read more...

Canada Council

Theme for next issue:
Women and Health
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2013 and July 15, 2013

Image reproduced with permission of the publisher

Book Review

24-04-13

By Day, By Night. Writings on Art. Maya Khankhoje: By Day, By Night. Writings on Art. By Edmund Alleyn. Edited by Jennifer Alleyn and Gilles Lapointe. les editions du Read more…

Commentary

23-04-13

Addressing Skill Gaps in Canada Nilambri Ghai: Canada supports one of the most expensive education systems in the world; yet four out of 10 graduates from Read more…

> La presse se regroupe autour du Général Rios Montt lors de son entrée dans la salle.

Special Report

22-04-13

MASSACRES DANS LES VILLAGES Mary Ellen Davis: “À leurs yeux, nous n’étions pas humains.” Le début d’un procès historique: le général Efraín Rios Montt accusé de génocide Read more…

ducksflymoon2

Art

21-04-13

Eight pieces of art Dominique Normand: Dominique Normand provides us with eight pieces of art and four answers to questions posed by Serai’s Nilambri Ghai. Your Read more…

Detail: Kastevæsenet

Commentary

21-04-13

Kastevæsenet: The caste system II – Observations from 1895 Johanne Nielsen: This document, Kastevæsenet, was written in Danish by Johanne Nielsen, who was born in November 1873, in Fiolstraede, a district Read more…

Lennon

Commentary

21-04-13

Class and Cultural labels Rana Bose: “Il est comme un chauffeur de taxi!” Which means he could be Black, Haitian, Iranian, incomprehensible, immigrant, shifty, or that Read more…

Commentary

21-04-13

Two White Men Discussing Reasonable Accommodation (or Dear Charles) James Oscar: There have been several exemplary articles over the last couple of months challenging and exposing a euro and ethno-centric point Read more…

Poster on the wall of the Parc underpass leading to Van Horne

Editorial

30-03-13

Class, Caste, and Cultural Labels: This edition of Montreal Serai is about “Class, Caste, and Cultural Labels.” Once again class has become a central social Read more…

showcase-1

Short Story

30-03-13

GHUNGHROO Anushree Varma: I woke from nightmare into the vast bed. The magnificent coral bed carved into figures of men and dogs, with Read more…

Rikcelis

Essay

25-03-13

Digital Crossroads Merrianne Couture: A good friend recently reminded me of how I behaved at the Cancun bus station in 1991 when we travelled Read more…

Short Story

25-03-13

Another Home Nilambri Ghai: Phula did not look tall enough for a twelve-year-old, but that was the age she went by. It had been Read more…

Wikipedia page, 10 March 2013.

Commentary

25-03-13

The Second Caste Maya Khankhoje: It is generally accepted that the term caste as applied in India was introduced by the Portuguese when they established Read more…

Poetry

25-03-13

Three poems Dawn McSweeney: Accordion I passed a man playing accordion on a park bench filling the thick afternoon sunshine with strands that made me homesick Read more…

Douglass Street Music Collective, Jan 29 2013. Charity Chan (w/ Tim Dahl). Credit: Peter Gannushkin

Music

25-03-13

The Montreal Music Underground Paul Serralheiro: It’s Tuesday night in the back room of le Cagibi, a café in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal Read more…

Essay

25-03-13

Who Am I? Daniel Goldsmith: In the early 20th century, an enlightened Indian sage named Ramana Maharshi lived at the base of a mountain thought Read more…

Commentary

25-03-13

Urban space – Who gets what… and why? John Bradley: The city, with its street grids, the space given over to cars, to stores or housing or public spaces seems, Read more…

Performance Prose

25-03-13

The Killing of Osama bin Laden: A Kaleidoscope View through the Lens of Bob Dylan David Ryback: I love the smell of napalm in the morning. –spoken by actor Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, 1979 Read more…

Commentary

21-03-13

The Crisis and Class Patrick Barnard: I. Inequality and Breakdown In the spring of 2013 we are still living in an economic crisis of global Read more…

Poetry

21-03-13

Two New Poems Charlotte Hussey: ROMA In the last heat, little puffs of fog lift off the marsh like white birds, and although she is Read more…

Essay

21-03-13

White Law, Native Norms, and Greed in Canadian History and Literature Marie Thérèse Blanc: 12 March 2013 In 1876, a number of Saskatchewan Cree and Chipewyan chiefs, faced with starvation due to a decrease Read more…

Music

21-03-13

Election Day Chris Velan: This song has been kicking around in my notebook for a while now. I figured what better time to record Read more…

Cover A Room on the Mountain

Book Review

17-03-13

Review of A Room on the Mountain Nilambri Ghai: Anne Cimon’s new novella, A Room on the Mountain, (Gemma Books, Greenfield Park, Québec), is a story of grief, following Read more…

Short Story

17-03-13

Tai’s Rules Maya Khankhoje: Jennie was seven when she first met Tai, her father’s sister. Sadashiv, her father, had been longing to return to Read more…