"My most favourite thing to do with someone I meet for the first time is to ask them: What is the most controversial opinion that you hold?" For graphic designer and illustrator Maitreyi Bhatia, this conversation starter turned into a larger project - a zine titled Controversial Opinions.

The 23-year-old reminisces to the time of watching the news with her grandmother, the television being a chaotic space with people arguing over random topics. "I'd always ask my dadi - how do you even understand what they’re saying if they’re always shouting over each other? It’s when I began to notice this in a lot of aspects of my life where people argue a lot more than they actually try to have respectful conversations," she says. Bhatia also stumbled upon American-Canadian comedian Steven Crowder’s YouTube videos where he puts up a sign that reads ‘Change My Mind’ along with controversial beliefs and invites people to engage in a civil discussion with him.