chhotahazri

Hindi: chhoti haziri, vulg. hazri, 'little breakfast'; refreshment taken in the early morning, before or after the morning exercise. (Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1994 [1886])

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Showing posts with label 'high culture'. Show all posts

22 March 2020

A Wizard of Song

My Mirror column: Sahir Ludhianvi, whose 99th birthday it is today, brought remarkable sophistication to the Hindi film lyric, yet never lo...

25 June 2018

From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation

My interview with a polyglot cultural theorist on the practice of translation. Published in Scroll . Tejaswini Niranjana is a wel...

14 August 2016

Gurvinder Singh Interview: "Writing and cinema are completely different"

An edited version of this interview was published in Vantage , the web section of The Caravan on 11 August 2016. Gurvinder Singh, who ...

24 April 2016

Book Review: Shashi Deshpande's Strangers to Ourselves

A review I wrote for Scroll : Shashi Deshpande's new novel is a dignified investigation of that thing called love. The cover...

21 April 2015

Post Facto: Bharatanatyam, ‘sleeveless’ and a threatened museum

My Sunday Guardian column this month: Last month, the Dr Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum had to abandon its plans to host the grand ...

6 June 2013

Actor, auteur and the bhadralok’s fearless agent provocateur: Rituparno Ghosh

An obituary I wrote for the Sunday Guardian : Rituparno Ghosh’s films might have been derided by some as “middle-class”, but he was ex...

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