Watch: Shefali Shah makes her directorial debut with short film ‘Happy Birthday Mummy Ji’
Available on the Large Short Films YouTube channel.

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Is calling an Indian Muslim a ‘Pakistani’ a crime in law?
A new book examines the violent legacy of the Criminal Tribes Act on Tamil Nadu’s Maravar community
What the sidelining of a Delhi University professor says about India’s attacks on academic freedom
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