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Rungh Magazine was a Vancouver-based large-format[1] Canadian print magazine launched in 1992, co-founded by Sherezad Jamal and Zool Suleman in 1991. Rungh magazine was published in print from 1992 to 1999. During its print run from 1992 to 1999, the magazine was focused on South Asian arts, culture, and criticism in Canada. After its relaunch as an online magazine in 2017 to present, it has been focused on IBPOC arts, culture and criticism.[2]
Community
[edit]The first edition of Rungh Magazine was published in print in 1992, and launched at the 1992 Desh Pardesh festival in Toronto. The first intentions for the magazine were to document communities of South Asian diasporic cultural production and activism in Canada such as the Desh Pardesh queer South Asian arts and culture festival. The magazine also intended to challenge definitions around what was South Asian, informed by the prevalent racial politics of Canada in the 1990s, with particular attention to Vancouver, the city where Rungh was founded.[2]
Editorial Team
[edit]The magazine was first under the editorial direction of the founders, Jamal and Suleman, from 1992 to 1997.[2] From 1997 to 1998, the magazine was led by guest editors. In 1997, the guest editors included Amirali Alibhai, Yasmin Ladha, and Ian Rashid. In 1998, the guest editors included Sourayan Mookerjea, and Ashok Mathur. In 1999, a second editorial team was formed, which included Prem Gill, Jarnail Gill, Sharan Gill, Jagdeesh Mann, and Harry Sadhra. Rungh magazine was dormant from 2000 to 2004.
Changes In Focus
[edit]Rungh magazine promoted debate and criticism in Canadian art and culture from the South Asian Diaspora.[3] From its onset, the magazine centred contributions from outside the mainstream culture. This included queer, youth, feminist, migrant worker, mixed-race and multiply displaced South Asian contributors.[4] In 1999, the subtitle of the magazine changed from "a South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment and Criticism" to "A South Asian Quarterly... art, culture, music, film".[5] The 1998 magazine, Volume 4 Issues 1 and 2, The Antiracism Issue, marked a pivot by the magazine to cover topics of racism more broadly than solely the South Asian perspective preceding this point.[2]
Rungh Magazine relaunched in 2017 and remains ongoing. After the relaunch, the magazine has been published online.[6] In its newest iteration, the magazine took on a broader focus of IBPOC (Indigenous, Black and People of Colour) arts and culture in Canada, while centering Indigeneity in particular. Rungh continues to document and promote discourse on struggles for self-representation by racially marginalized groups.[2]
Rungh Cultural Society has digitized, and made available the past print issues of Rungh magazine in an archive called Rungh Redux, in an effort to preserve cultural memory of activist work in Vancouver in the 1990s.[7]
Vol.1 Issue 1 & 2 The Home Issue, April 1992
Vol. 1 Issue 3 The Film and Video Issue, April 1992
Vol. 1 Issue 4 The Body Issue, January 1993
Vol. 2 Issue 1 & 2 The Roots Issue, July 1993
Vol. 2 Issue 3 The Literature Issue, March 1994
Vol. 2 Issue 4 The Visual Arts Issue, August 1994
Vol. 3 Issue 1 The Food Issue, January 1995
Vol. 3 Issue 2 Film & Video Issue II, April 1995
Vol.3 Issue 3 The Queer Issue, July 1995
Vol. 3 Issue 4 South Asian Publications, June 1997
Vol. 4 Issue 1 & 2 The Antiracism Issue, May 1998
Vol. 4 Issue 3 The Temptation Issue, February 1999
Vol. 4 Issue 4 The Journeys Issue, April 1999
Notable Contributors
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Dafoe, Chris (June 24, 1993). "WESTERN DIARY Changing cultural definitions". The Globe and Mail. pp. C2. ProQuest 385387934.
- ^ a b c d e Jiwani, Yasmin; Bernard-Brind'Amour, Marie (December 2023). "11 Rungh: The Many Colours of a Pan-Ethnoracial Medium". In Daniel Ahadi; Sherry S. Yu; Ahmed Al-Rawi (eds.). Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada. Mcgill-Queens University Press. pp. 244–261Mc. ISBN 9780228019275.
- ^ Wolfe, Morris (July 19, 1994). "MAGAZINES A reminder of the otherness of others". The Globe and Mail. pp. C1. ProQuest 385214850.
- ^ Mishra, Vijay (2007-01-01). Literature of the Indian diaspora : theorizing the diasporic imaginary. Routledge. pp. 133–183. ISBN 978-0-415-42417-2.
- ^ Andrews, Marke (February 23, 1999). "Revamped Rungh wants to widen appeal: The Vancouver-based quarterly, published for South Asian readers in Canada, is going after a new audience with a new look". The Vancouver Sun. pp. C6. ProQuest 242814842.
- ^ "Rungh Magazine". Rungh. Retrieved 2025-03-29.
- ^ Jiwani, Yasmin; Tremblay, Arjun; Bhatia, Mohita, eds. (2025). The politics and poetics of Indian digital diasporas: from Desi to Brown. Routledge/Asian studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian series. Abingdon, Oxon New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-032-59353-1.
- ^ "Rungh Redux". Rungh Redux. Retrieved 2025-03-29.