By Day, By Night. Writings on Art. By Edmund Alleyn. Edited by Jennifer Alleyn and Gilles Lapointe. les editions du […]

  Canada supports one of the most expensive education systems in the world; yet four out of 10 graduates from […]

“À leurs yeux, nous n’étions pas humains.” Le début d’un procès historique: le général Efraín Rios Montt accusé de génocide […]

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

This document, Kastevæsenet, was written in Danish by Johanne Nielsen, who was born in November 1873, in Fiolstraede, a district […]

“Il est comme un chauffeur de taxi!” Which means he could be Black, Haitian, Iranian, incomprehensible, immigrant, shifty, or that […]

There have been several exemplary articles over the last couple of months challenging and exposing a euro and ethno-centric point […]

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

I woke from nightmare into the vast bed. The magnificent coral bed carved into figures of men and dogs, with […]

A good friend recently reminded me of how I behaved at the Cancun bus station in 1991 when we travelled […]

Phula did not look tall enough for a twelve-year-old, but that was the age she went by. It had been […]

It is generally accepted that the term caste as applied in India was introduced by the Portuguese when they established […]

Accordion I passed a man playing accordion on a park bench filling the thick afternoon sunshine with strands that made me homesick […]

  It’s Tuesday night in the back room of le Cagibi, a café in the Mile End neighborhood of Montreal […]

In the early 20th century, an enlightened Indian sage named Ramana Maharshi lived at the base of a mountain thought […]

The city, with its street grids, the space given over to cars, to stores or housing or public spaces seems, […]

I love the smell of napalm in the morning. –spoken by actor Robert Duvall in Apocalypse Now, 1979     […]

I. Inequality and Breakdown   In the spring of 2013 we are still living in an economic crisis of global […]

ROMA In the last heat, little puffs of fog lift off the marsh like white birds, and although she is […]

12 March 2013 In 1876, a number of Saskatchewan Cree and Chipewyan chiefs, faced with starvation due to a decrease […]

This song has been kicking around in my notebook for a while now. I figured what better time to record […]

Anne Cimon’s new novella, A Room on the Mountain, (Gemma Books, Greenfield Park, Québec), is a story of grief, following […]

Jennie was seven when she first met Tai,  her father’s sister. Sadashiv, her father,   had been longing to return to […]