I am a founding member and board member of Montréal Serai, a non-profit webzine focused on arts, culture and politics, based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Founded in 1986 as a theatre and arts collective, its driving force has always been creating new communities, new arts, new solidarities — where voices once relegated to the margins take centre stage. Serai, from the Persian word caravanserai, means a resting place for travellers.
Interdisciplinary Performance · Memoir in Progress
Panj & Milāpa
Both works are rooted in writing — memoir, poetry, and spoken word woven together with music and image. Panj is a solo interdisciplinary performance tracing five pivotal moments in a Punjabi Sikh family's history. Milāpa is a memoir in progress moving between narrative and performance, tracing a path from exile to return.
Poetry
Chilloo
A poem emerging from psychedelic medicine and Internal Family Systems work — the rescue of an exiled inner child, and the unburdening of intergenerational pain. Accompanied by photographs from my personal archives.
Editorial
Gender Identity, Binarism, and Quantum Entanglement
An exploration of gender identity through a conceptual lens — drawing on the evolution of quantum mechanics as a framework for understanding how our thinking about identity continues to evolve beyond binaries.
Tribute
A Tribute to Rana Bose
An obituary for Rana Bose, co-founder of Montréal Serai, playwright, and a formative presence in Montréal's intercultural arts community.
Introduction
Running from the Family
An introduction to a talk by Kalpesh Oza, South Asian queer activist — one of the first openly queer South Asian men I encountered, a fellow artist-activist in the Montréal Serai theatre community of the 1980s.
Film Review
I Am a Cliché
A review of the documentary about British punk icon Poly Styrene, produced by her daughter Celeste Bell.
Walking in Nature and Photography as Practice — a journal entry on contemplative photography, grounded presence, and the healing intelligence of the natural world.
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