Starting a counterculture long before the term ‘zines’ became popular in Mumbai, Himanshu and Aqui Thami, the duo currently running Bombay Underground delve into creating reading spaces, a zine culture and how appropriation plagues the unique craft today
It took Aqui Thami many years to learn how she was reading more books by male authors and very few by women. Now, through Sister Library, she is spearheading a movement to encourage more people to read works by women and start a conversation through art and literature
A Woman Was Harassed Here if you were in Mumbai a few years back, it was not uncommon to encounter a bright pink poster with this line at different public spaces. These were the places where artist Aqui Thami or someone she knew had faced .