Reviews &amp; Reflections

Nowhere with God: Uneasy Confessions of a SyncretistBy M.G. Vassanji

Essay by M.G. Vassanji.

Fear is the keyBy Amyn Sajoo

Seeking civic solidarity across divides.

Journey to a presentBy Phinder Dulai

Tāriq Malik’s Exit Wounds reviewed.

i am my mother’s daughterBy Sonali Menezes

Self inquiry in the art of Farheen Haq.

Look with Your EarsBy Ashley Marshall

Aaron Jones’s Fountain of Dreams reviewed.

An ultimate hustlerBy Ashley Marshall

Fantastic Negrito’s White Jesus, Black Problems reviewed.

Approaching Islamic StudiesBy Amyn Sajoo

Vol. 10, No. 4

Amyn Sajoo reviews What is Islamic Studies?

Holding SpaceBy Ramabai Espinet

Vol. 10, No. 4

A Meditation on Reclaimed: Indo Caribbean HerStories.

How Can We Reckon with a Future that Never WasBy Henry Yu

Vol. 10, No. 4

Henry Yu reflects on the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Missing Contexts and Flattened NarrativesBy Varda Nisar

Vol. 10, No. 4

Nalini Malini’s Crossing Boundaries reviewed.

HarrowingsBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 10, No. 4

Poet Cecily Nicholson’s rural meditations reviewed.

Not Checking BoxesBy Zool Suleman

Vol. 10, No. 3

Understanding Cultivating Kin on its own terms.

A Sense of HomeBy Ashley Marshall

Kelly Fyffe-Marshall's When Morning Comes reviewed.

A Flaneur’s JourneyBy Phinder Dulai

Bleeding geography and relation in the poetry of Paolo Javier.

Decolonizing This SpaceBy Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra

Shimrit Lee's Decolonize Museums reviewed.

Punjabi Language LearningsBy Asa Willoughby

Keerat Kaur's Panjabi Garden reviewed.

Understanding the unsaidBy Malivia Khondaker

everything left unsaid reviewed.

Horror at a HeadBy Rebecca Peng

Two monstrous anthologies reviewed.

Translations of exile and entrapmentBy Aaditya Aggarwal

Parastoo Anoushahpour’s The Time That Separates Us.

Traversing a Maritime LandscapeBy Phinder Dulai

A Singaporean in exile in Joanne Leow's poetry.

Crossing Terrains: Unsettling Tinai While Translating TamilBy Nedra Rodrigo

Essays on translation.

Elegiac Moods—Letters to Agha Shahid AliBy Rahat Kurd

Essays on translation.

Reactivation by DesignBy Simone Wharton

Vol. 9, No. 4

Graphic designer Simone Wharton shares the thoughtful conversations and considerations that informed shifting from print to digital design for Redux.

Vol. 9, No. 4

Weaving a webBy Frank Hangler

Designing Rungh Redux for discovery.

Precarious Collective MemoryBy Rahat Kurd

Vol. 9, No. 4

Reflections on Rungh Magazine's 1992 launch.

Crafting activismBy Sonia Tao

Vol. 9, No. 4

The Centre Cannot Hold: Laborious Memories reviewed.

Selling Bob MarleyBy Ashley Marshall

Vol. 9, No. 4

One Love Experience reviewed.

To Inspire RevolutionBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 9, No. 4

Make the World New reviewed.

Spatial LexiconBy Ashley Marshall

HUE exhibition reviewed.

Distance RepairedBy Rusaba Alam

Himmat reviewed.

Public Art and Creating CommunityBy David McGonigal-Videla

David Garneau’s Tawatinâ Bridge reviewed.

Taking Back SpaceBy S F Ho

Commodified Trauma and Supernatural Gentrification reveiwed.

Beyond ExtinctionBy Hanif Karim

Ali Kazimi documents Sinixt resurgence.

A Sankofic Love LetterBy Ashley Marshall

Caribbean Diasporic Identities at the AGO.

Reconciliation as a Massive FailureBy Bruce McIvor

Bruce McIvor challenges Canada's big lie.

The Metaphorical Life of FinchesBy Phinder Dulai

Tolu Oloruntoba's Each One a Furnace reviewed.

Mermaid, Pilgrim, SpectatorBy Aaditya Aggarwal

Rasha Salti Curates a Deep Sea Cinema.

Representing “The Indigenous Experience”By Evelyn Pakinewatik

Cousins and Kin Program at DOXA 2021.

Punjab, Punjabi, PunjabiyatBy Anne Murphy

Vol. 9, No. 1

Understanding language, geography and belonging.

Intrinsically Tied to ReciprocityBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 9, No. 1

Selina Boan's Undoing Hours reviewed.

Holding Space for Beauty and BlacknessBy Ashley Marshall

Vol. 9, No. 1

Is love a synonym for abolition? reviewed.

The Voiceless SpeakBy David Austin

Vol. 9 No. 1

Grada Kilomba's Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism reviewed.

we all begin in waterBy Hannah Claus

Vol. 8, No. 4

Tracing rivers and Indigenous epistemologies.

Building KinshipsBy S F Ho

Vol. 8, No. 4

Fear and Care for the Fate of the World reviewed.

Meditations on SolitudeBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 8, No. 3

Manahil Bandukwala and Conyer Clayton's Sprawl reviewed.

Mother TongueBy Mehjabeen Datoo

Vol. 8, No. 2

Hands for Language reviewed.

Playing with RefusalBy Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot

Vol. 8, No. 2

Divya Mehra's From Canada to India and back to Canada (There is nothing I can possess which you cannot take away) reviewed.

Other Forms of Being TogetherBy David McGonigal-Videla

Vol. 8, No. 2

Jin-me Yoon installation reviewed.

Foreign Object in the House of Canadian LiteratureBy Annahid Dashtgard

A reflection by Annahid Dashtgard.

New Cartographies: Power to the Young PeopleBy Ashley Marshall

Three-Thirty Exhibition at Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival 2020.

A Return of a New MedeaBy Rebecca Peng

Myths of heroism and desire in Laiwan’s Tender.

Taking a Psychedelic TripBy Sam Dharmasena

Shamik’s Gaali reviewed.

Oratory to the PageBy Phinder Dulai

Jillian Christmas' the gospel of breaking reviewed.

Faith ConnectsBy Rusaba Alam

acts of faith reviewed by Rusaba Alam.

Authorization for the Fire: Between Possession and EmbodimentBy Helena Martin Franco

Vol. 7, No. 4

Helena Martin Franco reflects on a Primary Colours residency.

Suspended SoulsBy Mathilde Benignus

Three performances and an embodied talk by Soleil Launière.

Version française

Interrogating Our Conflation of Authenticity with CertaintyBy Rebecca Peng

Mercedes Eng's my yt mama reviewed.

Trauma Not SpokenBy Phinder Dulai

Irfan Ali's Accretion reviewed.

Found in TranslationBy Conner Singh VanderBeek

Ruby Singh and the Khan Brothers' genre-bending musical collaboration.

No Drone Zone, Pushing Stylistic BoundariesBy Conner Singh VanderBeek

Mohamed Assani's Wayfinder reviewed.

Creating in IsolationBy Stephanie Wong Ken

M:ST's Bodily Response video series reviewed

Queer, Desi and BadassBy Natasha Ramoutar

Meet Goonda rap duo Cartel Madras.

Hummingbirds and Sleeping BuffaloBy Charles Campbell

Charles Campbell reflects on a Primary Colours residency.

Visiting and Revisiting LovesBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 7, No. 2

Shani Mootoos' Polar Vortex reviewed.

Knowledge Exchange Across the Pacific OceanBy Amina Creighton-Kelly

Vol. 7, No. 1

Transits and Returns at the VAG reviewed.

Revisiting the UncannyBy Ricky Varghese

Vol. 7, No. 1

Indu Antony's While I Slept reviewed.

Stories, Truths and LiesBy Phinder Dulai

Vol. 7, No. 1

Anosh Irani Translated from the Gibberish reviewed by Phinder Dulai.

Reflections on Bolo BoloBy Sunil Gupta

HIV/AIDS, 'Black Arts', and LGBTQ rights.

Changing Brands, Shifting Sites and SightsBy Conner Singh VanderBeek

A reflection on 5X Festival’s programming challenges.

Exploring HonourBy Veena Gokhale

Reflections on 'identity' and 'belonging'.

Reorganizing Orientalist ConstructionsBy Himani Bannerji

Reflections on 'identity' and 'belonging'.

Fantasy of Acceptance in Bard on the Beach’s All’s Well That Ends Well?By Rusaba Alam

Rusaba Alam's review from Bard on the Beach.

Streams Coming TogetherBy Shani Mootoo

1990's video in Vancouver and beyond.

Material Questioning: Durrah Alsaif’s Jawahir:JewelsBy Simanpreet Anand

Simanpreet Anand reviews Jawahir: Jewels at Deerlake Gallery, Burnaby, BC.

Undone ExpectationsBy Rusaba Alam

Soleimanpour's Nassim reviewed by Rusaba Alam.

Making Queer Pakistani Women Visible in Patthar Ki ZabaanBy Sanchari Sur

Sanchari Sur reviews Patthar Ki Zabaan at The Rhubarb Festival in Toronto.

Kathak and Tap Dance ConverseBy Veena Gokhale

Veena Gokhale reviews Rhythm Rewritten at the Festival Acces Asie, Montréal.

Photos Perform India at the VAGBy Hussein Keshani

Hussein Keshani reviews Moving Still: Performative Photography in India at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Prickly FruitBy Rusaba Alam

Vol. 6, No. 2

The Orchard (After Chekhov) reviewed.

Claiming Visible SpaceBy Shagufta Pasta

Vol. 6, No. 2

Reflections on the Vancouver Mural Festival.

Countervailing at the MarginsBy Kiran Sunar

Vol. 6, No. 2

Acts of Refusal in Simranpreet Anand’s ਮੈਂ ਿੲੱਥੇ ਹਾਂ (i am here).

A Love of Tragic BeautyBy Hanif Karim

Rawi Hage's Beirut Hellfire Society reviewed.

Identity Politics, Once AgainBy Am Johal

Am Johal review's Asad Haider's Mistaken Identity.

Am I Dancing My Life Away?By Mandeep Wirk

Staged reading of Chivalry is Dead by playwright Munish Sharma at the 2018 Monsoon Festival reviewed.

The Trees are InnocentBy Charles Campbell

Charles Campbell reviews art by Sandra Semchuck and Ayumi Goto at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Mythical Ambiguity and NiseiBy Carolyn Nakagawa

Vol. 5, No. 4

Kerri Sakamoto's Floating City reviewed.

Difficult Realities: Divya Mehra’s DIFFICULT PEOPLEBy Simranpreet Anand

Vol. 5, No. 4

Performance review.

Versions of ContemporaneityBy Madhia Sikander and Rajarshi Sengupta

Vol. 5, No. 3

Revisiting the qualifier 'indigenous' in Many Visions, Many Versions.

South Asian Photography in FocusBy Hussein Keshani

Vol. 5, No. 3

Hussein Keshani reviews photo exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery.

A Rising Tide: Fighting Tamil Refugee Detention in CanadaBy Fathima Cader

Vol. 5, No. 3

Sharon Bala's The Boat People reviewed.

An Uncertain Latitude: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy David Garneau

I wonder about artistic privilege. The advantages, attention, and public money granted to select artists, but especially the social margin, passage, and exception we occasionally enjoy.

We Continue to Walk: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy Samaqani Cocahq

And we continue to walk. Taking time to go to our medicines. To speak to our teachers. We do our ceremonies. And we continue to walk.

The Great Welcome: A PC/Cp ReflectionBy Zab Maboungou

When I received the invitation to participate in the great gathering that was Primary Colours this autumn in the city of Victoria in British Columbia, my feeling was above all that of remembrance.

Version française

Multilayered Encounter: Physical Theatre ReviewBy Scheherazaad Cooper

Encounter tells the story of Dopdi Mehjen, an indigenous woman and necessity-driven revolutionary, who is eventually captured and tortured by the authorities.

Unfiltered Universe and Agrima: New Jazz Releases ReviewedBy David Adler

The latest jazz releases from Rudresh Mahanthappa and Rez Abbasi are reviewed.

Untouchable KashmirBy Rahat Kurd

Arundhati Roy's The Ministry of Utmost Happiness reviewed.

Ghost BoysBy Mehjabeen Datoo

Shenaaz Nanji's Ghost Boys reviewed.

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Arundhati Roy and Her Mission to InspireBy Ali Kazimi

Book Launch Event, June 22, 2017, Toronto.

ACT NOW on ReconciliationBy Mandeep Wirk

Cathy Busby's, WE CALL creates awareness, understanding, and dialogue around the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's (TRC) recommendations for reconciliation between Aboriginal peoples and settlers.

Aunty AdviceBy Abeer Yusuf

Maria Qamar's Trust No Aunty reviewed.

Defence Society, Lahore in the Age of Satellite T.V.By Rehan Ansari

Rehan Ansari reports form Lahore on the transformations and fractures of post-modernity in South Asian space.

Where I’m Coming FromBy Amitava Kumar

Amitava Kumar shares how his move from India to the USA has continually changed his own ideas of modernity, and more importantly why this change is not perceived as important.

The Life and Times of Permveer BainsBy Permveer Bains

Twelve year old Permveer Bains recollects his groovy adventure.

The New SpinBy Jarnail (Jerry) Gill

Reviews of Bombay The Hard Way and the latest from Black Star Liner.

Such an Uncertain Voyage, Such a Long JourneyBy Blair Davis

Blair Davis reviews Such a Long Journey.

Glassy JunctionBy Jagdeesh Mann

Jagdeesh Mann spends a sobering night at the Glassy Junction Pub, Southhall, UK.

Sakina’s RestaurantBy Jasmyn Singh

Jasmyn Singh reviews theatrical monologue Sakina's Restaurant.

The Temptation Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3 (February 1999)

The Temptation of MishalBy Elizabeth Mary Chakkappan

E.M. Chakkappan documents a young woman's decision to give into religious temptation.

The Temptation Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3 (February 1999)

Earth Under FireBy Jasmyn Singh

Jasmyn Singh reviews Earth.

The Temptation Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3 (February 1999)

Bombay or BustBy Jasmyn Singh

A sneak peak into Kaizad Gustad’s directorial debut, Bombay Boys.

The Temptation Issue, Vol. 4, No. 3 (February 1999)

The New SpinBy Jarnail (Jerry) Gill

A look at new albums by Talvin Singh and Asian Dub Foundation.

The Antiracism Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2 (May 1998)

Global NiggadomBy Peter Hudson

KRS-1 and signs of blackness.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

Aurat DurbarBy Shazia Qureshi

Writings by Women of South Asian origin reviewed.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

Dogs Barking in the Cool Damp Distance, Iron Nails Rusting in the TreeBy Gregory Shea

Julian Samuel's Passage to Lahore reviewed.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

Rights Across BordersBy Amyn Sajoo

Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship reviewed.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

Entering Closed Entrances; Engaging Oppositional AestheticsBy Ashok Mathur

A.H. ltwaru & N. Ksonzek and Arun Mukherjee reviewed.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

The Mehtaphor of FireBy Ameen Merchant

Deepa Mehta taken to task.

The South Asian Publications Issue, Vol. 3, No. 4 (June 1997)

When Fox is a ThousandBy Kuan Foo

Larissa Lai's debut novel reviewed.

A Stranger’s ViewBy Kathleen Pirrie Adams

Kathleen Pirrie Adams on Tanya Syed's Queerness.

Notes on a Queer South Asian PlanetBy Gayatrai Gopinath

Gayatrai Gopinath on Queer Transnational Cultures.

Tantrik DropletsBy Sonali Fernando

Looking for South Asian lipstick lesbians, Sonali Fernando finds Annie Sprinkle instead.

Her Sweetness LingersBy Ian Iqbal Rashid

Ian Iqbal Rashid reviews Shani Mootoo's sexy, evocative new video.

Destiny Desire DevotionBy Atif Ghani

Atif Ghani reviews Zahid Dar's first film.

Corporealities of DesireBy Smaro Kamboureli

Smaro Kamboureli examines the poignant, painful worlds of Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy.

How Do You Say ‘Queer’ in ‘South Asian’?By Ian Iqbal Rashid

Editorial by Ian Iqbal Rashid, Guest Editor.

Desi DykesBy Pratibha Parmar

Pratibha Parmar's Film Fantasies.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Trashing ‘Coolies’By Shiraz Dossa

Shiraz Dossa takes on Neil Bissoondath's Selling Illusions.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

In Nairobi with Meena FoybaBy Sheyfali Saujani

Sheyfali Saujani speaks the unspoken.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Beauty in ComplexityBy Sue Donaldson

Sue Donaldson reviews two videos by Julian Samuel, The Raft of the Medusa and Into the European Mirror.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Her Mother’s Ashes and Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United StatesBy Sheyfali Saujani

A short story collection edited by Nurjehan Aziz reviewed.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Asian and Asian Diaspora ProgrammeBy Ian Iqbal Rashid

Curated by L.Somi Roy for the Flaherty Film Seminars, Aurora, New York reviewed.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Identity in Motion: Beyond DestinationBy Atif Ghani

Atif Ghani examines the construction of South Asian Identity in a video program curated by Ian Iqbal Rashid.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

The Bandit Queen: One Tattered Umbrella and a Lesson in DignityBy Kaspar Saxena

Gitanjali reviews the controversy.

The Film and Video Issue II, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1995)

Narmada: a valley risesBy H. Itwaru

H. Itwaru reviews Ali Kazimi’s profoundly moving documentary film.

What’s for Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant?By Mina Kumar

Mina Kumar makes a meal of New York’s Indian restaurants.

All-Time AnnapoorniBy Lakshmi Kannan

Our Feet Walk the SkyBy Mina Kumar

Anthology of American South Asian Women’s Writing reviewed.

When Food Was A Way Of LifeBy Anees Jung

Where are the puddings of yesteryear?By Ann Birch

Dal Away DutchBy Aritha van Herk

Self Not WholeBy Henry Tsang

In search of cultural space.

Photocopies & VideotapesComments by Keith Wallace; Review by Sur Mehat

Shani Mootoo at the CAG.

Off Colour: Not just an ‘other’ screeningBy Shani Mootoo

Review.

Locating South Asia at the MetBy Mina Kumar

Review.

Hair of the Dog?By Sonali Fernando

Contemporary South Asian visual arts in Britain.

Dear Desh…Edited and compiled by Ian Iqbal Rashid

‘Letters’ from Nayan Shah, Melina Young, Ayisha Ibrahim, Atif Ghani and Gitanjali.

A Film Without a ContextBy Yasmin Jiwani

The Burning Season reviewed.

Culture and ImperialismBy Shiraz Dossa

Edward Said reviewed.

Love is a Many-Lotused ThingBy Mina Kumar

Book review.

Cinema on the Critical EdgeBy Ameen Merchant & Yasmin Jiwani

Shyam Benegal's Seventh Horse of the Sun & Kehtan Mehta's Maya Memsaab reviewed.

When the Ship Came In…

Remembering the Komagata Maru.

In My Mother’s ImageBy Sur Mehat

A note from a South Asian woman artist to South Asian women artists.

Vancouver SathBy Sadhu Binning

A profile.

ChandralekhaBy Alicia Peres

Alicia Peres at New Directions in Indian Dance.

Gains Made by Women of Colour in National Women’s OrganizationsBy Nazlin Nathu

Nazlin Nathu at NAWL.

The Colour of DanceBy Roger Sinha

Roger Sinha in process.

Latifah & Himli’s Nomadic UncleBy Ian Iqbal Rashid

Alnoor Dewshi's film reviewed.

Telling Relations: Sexuality and the FamilyBy Karlyn Koh

Visual art in review.

A Suitable BoyAli Lakhani

Vikram Seth's novel reviewed.

A Balancing Act: Family and WorkBy B.K. Gosh

NFB video reviewed.

The Migration of MemorySaloni Mathur

Ayesha Abraham profiled by Saloni Mathur.

Desh Pradesh 1993By Amir Ali Alibhai

Are we family?

Beyond the Body ProjectBy Derek Simons and Richard Pinet

The Writers' Union and cultural appropriation.

to visit the tiger in review & Artist’s StatementsBy Henry Tsang

“Be it Resolved…”By Sanjay Khanna

The Writers' Union and cultural appropriation.

In Her Own ImageBy Ameen Merchant

Indian documentary celebrated.

Video in ReviewBy Sanjay Khanna

A Sari Tale and Hair Space.

In InglishBy Kirsten Emiko McAllister

Writing with an accent.

Yes + NoBy Nilambri Ghai and Molly Shinhat

Letters from post-referendum Montréal.

“Unwanted Hair Problem?”By Sarita Srivastava

Struggling to re-present our bodies.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No.3 (August 1992)

About Face, About FrameBy Kwame Dawes

Struggling for a voice within and without.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No.3 (August 1992)

Of Customs and ExciseBy Maia Chowdhury

Rachna Mara's book reviewed.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No.3 (August 1992)

Personal Journies, Personal Views — Gita SaxenaBy Seema Ahluwalia

Exploring an identity quest.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1992)

Masala — Take One: The Audience that Didn’t CountBy Yasmin Jiwani

A review.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1992)

Masala — Take Two: Cutting Your Own DealsBy Sanjay Khanna

A review.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1992)

Working PortraitsVideo Art by Leila Sujir

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1992)

Dear Didi…By Yasmin Ladha

A Letter to Mississippi Masala director Mira Nair.

The Film and Video Issue, Vol. 1, No. 3 (August 1992)

Personal Journies, Personal Views — Michelle MohabeerBy Michelle Mohabeer

On the making of an exile and filmmaker.

Desh Pradesh – South Asian Culture in the DiasporaOpening Address by Punam Khosla

A conference & festival exploring South Asian culture in the West.

Home as Mythical SpacePratibha Parmar, Chris Creighton-Kelly and M.G. Vassanji

A Desh Pradesh workshop.

Beyond the Kala PaniBy Ramabai Espinet

The voices of Indo-Caribbean women.

“…There is a War on Women” — Violence Against WomenSunera Thobani and Jennifer Chew

A Desh Pradesh workshop.

Creating SolidarityBy Zara Suleman

Race, gender and violence.

Womanvoice, Womanvision — South Asian Women and FilmMichelle Mohabeer, Manjira Datta and Pratibha Parmar

Excerpts from Desh Pradesh workshops.

Trying to Speak and LiveBy Nayan Shah

The Construction of South Asian Lesbian and Gay Identities. A Desh Pradesh workshop.

Reclaiming Fabled TerritoryBy Larissa Lai

A review of Memory and Desire.