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  "en": "Naseeruddin Shah — 'Muslims Always Suspect', his Hindustan Times essay (2017)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "مقال نصير الدين شاه الختامي لسلسلة «هندوستان تايمز» ⁦(يونيو 2017)⁩، أُعيد نشره في «غوان أوبزرفر»: «تركت الدين حينها ولم أشعر قط بالحاجة إليه».",
  "en": "The concluding essay of Naseeruddin Shah's Hindustan Times series (June 2017), reprinted in the Goan Observer on 10 June 2017: 'I abandoned religion then and have never felt the need for it.'"
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  "title": "Muslims Always Suspect",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Shah",
    "given": "Naseeruddin"
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2017,
     6,
     10
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  "publisher": "Goan Observer",
  "URL": "https://www.goanobserver.in/2017/06/10/muslims-always-suspect/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "The actor's own signed essay, written for the Hindustan Times (#BeingMuslimNow series, published there 2 June 2017) and read in full at the Goan Observer reprint, which carries the paper's courtesy line. In it he also writes: 'Even though I am no longer a practising Muslim, and in fact had never been overly aware of a Muslim identity...' — both limbs of his position are in his own words.",
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   "review": "published",
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  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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