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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9 August 2017

Thin Grey Line

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An essay I wrote for the Taj Magazine. Is photography a science or an art? And how does a photo change if it is posed or embellished? Is ...

15 April 2014

Cheers to the Drunken Song

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My Mumbai Mirror column from last Sunday. Hema Malini offers a faux-apology for (faux-)drunkenness to an outraged Sanjeev Kumar. See...

27 February 2014

Book Review: All in the Family

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My review of Nony Singh's The Archivist for Biblio . See the pdf version, with images, here . The book jacket. (Click on the...

29 October 2013

TRUTH AND THEATRE: On photography

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My essay in Open , drawing on two photo exhibitions: 'Studio Suhag' and 'My Life is My Message'. The wonderful 1982 ...

23 September 2012

Post Facto: What is the ‘real you’, and other questions about photo-portraits

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My column for the Sunday Guardian . When anthropologist Chris Pinney began his research in Bhatisuda village in 1982, he took a half-le...

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16 September 2008

Christopher Pinney Interview

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"Visual history tells us about repressed histories" Christopher Pinney, one of the first scholars to celebrate India’s adaption...

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