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 Italo Calvino. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Italo Calvino. Show all posts

10 September 2013

Plot before you click!

My piece about a special exhibit -- on photography and cinema -- at the Delhi Photo Festival: Some people are just prescient. In a brilliant...

14 August 2013

Post Facto - Life in pictures: Tales from photo albums old and new

My Sunday Guardian column for this fortnight: Lately I've been looking at photographs a lot. Some of them are old, and ...

20 December 2012

Post Facto -- Used Goods: Cities, capitalism and the obsolescence of things

My Sunday Guardian column this fortnight: mong the numerous imaginative triumphs of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is Leo...

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