Nationhood

Volume 35 No. 3
Editorial

Blut und Boden—On This Nationhood Thing

Rana Bose

When the Editorial Board framed the theme statement for this issue of Serai on Nationhood, we asked in the opening paragraph, “What does nationhood mean today for the First Nations and other Indigenous peoples, who strive to navigate forward in […]

Book Review

Sensorial connections

Maya Khankhoje

They say books are on their way out – and who reads anyway, especially poetry? They say humans will either be done in by wars or melted down by climate change, or be replaced by cyborgs. They say a lot […]

Essay

Nationhood Has No Borders 

Rana Bose

To start out, I have taken great pains to not consult academic or internet classifications of the subject that I have chosen to write on, and have allowed my mind to wander and evolve. As a result, there may be […]

Short Story

How Exotic We Are

Cyril Dabydeen

Mount Everest: She was a mother hen and the other mountains were chicks under her wings. – Tenzing Norgay Shimla was where I wanted to be, like nowhere else in the northwest Himalayas – where the houses stood on precipices, […]

Book Review

India’s Revolutionary Foot Soldiers

Sam Boskey

Montréal Serai invited me to comment on this book, not as someone with any particular expertise on India, Maoism, or the Adivasi (Indigenous peoples in India), but as an interested member of the public. In the late 1960s, when I […]

Editor picks