Montreal Serai

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

Yes, this is a Literature issue and it was always destined to be one.  I was going to talk extensively  Read more…

Heroes and heroines. These are words that graze the archaic. Words that suggest people with extraordinary super powers. Words that  Read more…

  Confronted with the query –“Are Canadian films sexy … question mark?” – – I was baffled as what angle  Read more…

    As various contributors point out in this issue of Montreal Serai, we are obviously now living in an  Read more…

  An issue on Canadian Literature has been on the cards for a long time. Here it is, and…… here  Read more…

Sociological (and sometimes mischievous)  terminology like identity gap and cultural appropriation, accommodation and even assertions like Euro-centrism and Orientalism and  Read more…

For the past several years, we have been justifiably looking out and beyond the city we originate from—-Montreal, Quebec, Canada.  Read more…

There is a tendency amongst a lot of liberal-minded people to go ape about Wikileaks, beyond and above what are  Read more…

The words aboriginal, indigenous, native, primitive, adivasi, tribal  and first nations are used almost synonymously although there are subtle differences  Read more…

  (An editorial essay on the Middle East)  What is it that we do here in Montreal or anywhere else  Read more…

  THE ISSUE:  This summer  Montreal Serai focuses on the environment through a variety of viewpoints. Jacqueline Fortson, who has  Read more…

              It was exactly  a hundred years ago that Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social  Read more…

“Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not  Read more…

They say home is where the heart is. Or is it the hearth? Or both? What constitutes homelessness? Are people  Read more…

In November 2008, I saw a theatrical piece by Dave St. Pierre at Theatre La Chapelle in Montreal.  The piece  Read more…

We’re not idiots. But as Canadians, we’re told things, contradictory things, things that don’t add up… about Afghanistan, our mission,  Read more…

Rights are hard to locate. One man’s rigorous beliefs in his “cultural” assertion are another woman’s confinement and destitution. The  Read more…

Rights are hard to locate. One man’s rigorous beliefs in his “cultural” assertion are another woman’s confinement and destitution. The  Read more…

Cartoon by: Susan Dubrofsky On the 25th of May in 1967 in a remote hamlet, in a district called Darjeeling,  Read more…

This issue of Montreal Serai is dedicated to the environment which is why it contains facts, probabilities and imagining. We  Read more…

    Cartoon by Susan Dubrofsky Racial disdain and distance goes beyond incidents of hatred on the streets, defiling of  Read more…

[The editorial below confines itself to the task of establishing a set of principles that will determine, in advance of  Read more...

This e-zine’s been around for as long as there have been e-zine’s on the web…or so it seems. Since 1995,  Read more…

Night crawls in and Banksy and his urban warriors sweep through town…or maybe a distant village. They appear in Los  Read more…