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Sapna Moti Bhavnani traces her lost roots and land through Sindhustan

Hairstylist Sapna Bhavnani's docu drops online, revisiting the largest migration of a culture in the world, through her body

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Punjab-Sindh-Gujarat-Maratha, Dravida-Utkala-Banga.' Singing the national anthem, during the morning school assembly, as a six-year-old, was how I was first acquainted with my country's diversity. I remember poring over the map of India, to find the places that we sang paeans about. Sindh was impossible to locate. For that, my teacher later informed, I'd have to seek outwards, in the neighbouring country of Pakistan. A place my eyes had never travelled to, until then.

Celebrity hairstylist Sapna Moti Bhavnani's documentary, Sindhustan, also draws from her own ignorance of Sindh, where her ancestral roots lie. "All I knew about my culture was Sindhi kadi," says Bhvanani in the film, that she has also co-produced. The hour-long film is both a physical and meditative invocation of her lost roots and land.

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