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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27 July 2020

All the perfumes of Arabia

My Mirror column: Uplifting and devastating by turns, Vinod Kamble’s 2019 debut feature Kastoori (The Musk) is the kind of coming-of-age na...

20 July 2019

Status and the status quo

My Mirror column : Anubhav Sinha’s fearless Article 15 uses a pacy police procedural to make Indians sit up and pay attention to an as...

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 ...

29 April 2012

Redemption Songs: Jai Bhim Comrade

Anand Patwardhan’s revelatory, sprawling documentary Jai Bhim Comrade is a remarkable record of the visual and aural history of t...

5 August 2011

The Politics of Prakash Jha

A critical essay, published in The Caravan , August 2011 , tracing the well-known filmmaker's changing political trajectory: IN P...

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