What is Nazar?

Nazar – A South Asian Perspective, is an award-winning online magazine that caters to the South Asian population at The University of Texas at Austin.

Like most good ideas, Nazar was born from the need to fill a gap. This gap was a lack of a publication that catered to the 5,000 South Asians on campus, a community that makes up 10% of the UT population. We wanted to create a magazine that would not only be a representative voice of this community, but would also inform South Asians in detail of the events happening back at home.

This doesn’t just mean a compilation of facts of the major events - anyone, South Asian or otherwise, can get those – but reviews and opinions of them, especially from the perspective of a South Asian living overseas. Just as important will be the coverage of issues and events in the US that affect South Asians living here, be it immigration and foreign policy, the cultural divide, or an imminent performance by a South Asian artist in Austin.

Nazar is the first of its kind, and promises to be an excellent platform for writers, designers, and just about anyone involved in a publication.

The People Behind Nazar

Executive Committee:

President: Girish Jayaraman

Vice President: Ishita Paul

Editor-In-Chief: Sumita Sami

Assistant Editor: Anand Jayanti

Fund-Raising Director: Mariah Sheikh

Secretary: Roshni Parikh

Treasurer: Shivani Patel

Senior Advisor: Vaibhav Jain

Publicity Chief: Ravi Sunkara

Design Chief: Anand Jayanti

Chief of Web Design: Ishan Mandhan

Junior Officers:

Prabhat Garg

Anish Malpani

Editorial Committee

Sumita Sami (Editor-in-Chief)

Anand Jayanti (Assistant Editor)

Niyantha Shekar

Vaibhav Jain

Suchismita Pahi

Nimisha Mittal

Pragya Bhagat

Girish Jayaraman

Aditya Mehta

Sara Haji

Shreya Krishnan

Simrat Sharma

Anand Jayanti

Muneezeh Kabir

Ravi Sunkara

Design Team

Anand Jayanti (Design Chief)

Sourav Biswas

Anish Malpani

Publicity Team

Ravi Sunkara (Publicity Chief)

Girish Jayaraman

Roshni Parikh

Prabhat Garg

Vaibhav Jain

Fund-Raising Team

Mariah Sheikh (Fund-Raising Director)

Photographers

Amirah Islam

Araceli Jaime