India, May 23 -- When Warsan Shire said, " No one leaves home unless/ Home is the mouth of a shark/ You only run for the border/ When you see the whole city running as well ," it continued to be a reality for many people and their communities who lost their cultural and regional identities in the blink of an eye.

Celebrity hairstylist and filmmaker Sapna Moti Bhavnani's web documentary, Sindhustan, recalls one such event where a community, amid political upheavals and religious riots, was again forgotten. It explores the migration of the Sindhi community to India during and post-Partition. The first inspiration for such a project came to her when she discovered how her father, born in Shikarpur in Sindh, migrated from Karachi to Bombay a...