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  "en": "Naseeruddin Shah — Traversing Tradition commentary (2021)"
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 "summary": {
  "ar": "تعليق نقدي ⁦(29 سبتمبر 2021)⁩ يصف نصير الدين شاه وجاويد أختر بأنهما «ملحدان معلنان» وينسب إلى شاه أنه يعدّ نفسه ملحداً مع تمسّكه بهوية مسلمة.",
  "en": "Critical commentary of 29 September 2021 which describes Naseeruddin Shah and Javed Akhtar as 'self-declared atheists' and says of Shah: 'Shah regards himself as an atheist, but still lays claim to Muslim identity.'"
 },
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  "title": "Why the Likes of Naseeruddin Shah Are in the Wrong",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Traversing Tradition",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2021,
     9,
     29
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Traversing Tradition",
  "URL": "https://traversingtradition.com/2021/09/29/why-the-likes-of-naseeruddin-shah-are-in-the-wrong/",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Polemical commentary, read in full on the publisher's site; registered only as evidence of the public atheist reading of Shah, not for any fact about him. Its characterisation goes beyond his own published words and is weighed accordingly in the record's flagged faith note.",
  "type": "web",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
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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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