Just music: a sense of lineage from the personal to the cultural and beyond
a thread of history, a thread of legacy, a thread of continuity in cycles, rhythms, tradition and culture
a thread of history, a thread of legacy, a thread of continuity in cycles, rhythms, tradition and culture
A group of oil-on-canvas camel herders in Rajasthan, a number of plants sent from different parts of the […]
In this significant departure from the beaten path by our editorial board, we chose to dispense with the “theme statement”
There is a vital energy pulsing through this winter issue of Montréal Serai. It radiates off the landing […]
Globalization, as a phase of capitalist mutation, received a punch in the face from COVID-19.
There is the disease, and it’s scary enough, but even scarier are the underlying policies, and those that are improvised as we go.
In the past couple of years, we have all discussed and dissected, with intensity, the man-made climatological changes […]
Perhaps scientific understanding and artistic imagining are different aspects of the same impulse. And humanity’s great understanders and […]
This issue of Serai, “Beyond the Pale” (Vol.31, Issue 3), is one that resonates with me deeply. Hence, I […]
At the beginning of the year, I was invited to act as guest editor for the current issue of […]
Acts of dispossession, ethnic cleansing, genocide, discrimination, erasure of cultures and languages go back to time immemorial. But the […]
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.
Thirty years ago, in November 1986, we launched our very first issue of Montréal Serai. While commemorating this important milestone, we […]
En route to Europe and Asia, I find graffiti everywhere on streets and train stations in Copenhagen. Many words on […]