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a thread of history, a thread of legacy, a thread of continuity in cycles, rhythms, tradition and culture

Art Beyond the Canon

A group of oil-on-canvas camel herders in Rajasthan, a number of plants sent from different parts of the Middle East and Africa to Montréal by mail, a black-and-white photograph of the longed-for “velvet hush of a foggy evening,” […]

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Magma and Slivers of Moon

Rana Bose

In this significant departure from the beaten path by our editorial board, we chose to dispense with the “theme statement”

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Our stories, our truth

Jody Freeman

There is a vital energy pulsing through this winter issue of Montréal Serai. It radiates off the landing page, with the vibrant art of Leah Kanerahtaroroks Diome, who is from the unceded Kanien’kéha:ka Territory of Kahnawake. In her […]

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From Black Pepper and Coriander to Supply Chain and Pandemic Leverage

Rana Bose

Globalization, as a phase of capitalist mutation, received a punch in the face from COVID-19.

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Mental Health in Anxious Times

Claudia Itzkowich

There is the disease, and it’s scary enough, but even scarier are the underlying policies, and those that are improvised as we go.

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Climate change and the commons

Rana Bose, Nilambri Ghai and Jody Freeman

In the past couple of years, we have all discussed and dissected, with intensity, the man-made climatological changes that have hit our earth. It has become frustratingly clear that it is not enough to debate the science, the […]

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Intersections between science and art

Claudia Itzkowich

Perhaps scientific understanding and artistic imagining are different aspects of the same impulse. And humanity’s great understanders and imaginers are inspired from similar sources. Jack Klein That science informs art is patently obvious: painters and sculptors studying anatomy […]

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Beyond the Pale

Dipti Gupta

This issue of Serai, “Beyond the Pale” (Vol.31, Issue 3), is one that resonates with me deeply. Hence, I am very happy and honoured to write this editorial. The issue looks to the many changes in cinema across both […]

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Propagating ignorance in the name of the people

Claudia Itzkowich

At the beginning of the year, I was invited to act as guest editor for the current issue of Montréal Serai on “Populism and the Erasure of History.” I had to ask the editorial team to clarify what that […]

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Power and Privilege: My Heritage is Bigger than Yours

Máire Noonan

Acts of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, genocide, discrimination, erasure of cultures and languages go back to time immemorial. But the backdrop of events of the past two decades, looming catastrophic climate crisis, Trumpism and the rise of the “alt-right” across […]

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Unholy Alliances

There is nothing benevolent or beautiful about the forces of Nature mercilessly unleashed on Texas, indiscriminately flooding its precious oil refineries and destroying its population’s homes and livelihoods.

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Thirty years of Montréal Serai

Nilambri Ghai

Thirty years ago, in November 1986, we launched our very first issue of Montréal Serai. While commemorating this important milestone, we are proud to announce that Serai’s contribution to the promotion of literary arts has been recognized through the Quebec Writers’ […]

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The Heart has its Reasons

Nilambri Ghai

En route to Europe and Asia, I find graffiti everywhere on streets and train stations in Copenhagen. Many words on the graffiti look for peace in an unstable world. Others look for a world without borders or simply a place […]