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Updated On: 04 October, 2020 07:48 AM IST | P Vatsalya

Overlooked/Underheard is a virtual zine that compels you to think about race and related concerns in its first volume

Garvi Dhar's collage is "a commentary on the oppressors' construction of 'the native type' as a way to justify their identity as the coloniser"

I can't breathe," George Floyd can be heard repeating to a white police officer. Something about the nature of the African American's death in June, forced the world to sit up and take notice. "I wanted to mobilise people in my own circle and offer solidarity to the Black Lives Matter movement. We went about doing this by documenting and examining racial injustice in our own context, whether casteism or Islamophobia," says Shruti Nivas, designer and the editor of a recently-launched zine, Overlooked/Underheard.

Determined to speak out, Nivas reached out to her friends. Word of mouth resulted in the formation of a WhatsApp group of designers, illustrators and poets. A deadline of three weeks was set, as they pored over the question of race. The zine's first volume has thought-provoking images (illustrations and a collage) and words (poetry and prose) by Soumya Basnet, Shivani Gupta, Garvi Dhar, Abhijit Kacchap, Sangamalika Rajakumar, Abu Shaikh, Shruti Nivas, Manavi Datta and Anupama Rao.

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