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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13 December 2019

The Catholic Dress: Bombay to Goa and Back

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My Shelf Life column for TVOF: The dress-wearing Catholic girl was an object of Indian male fantasy, but as Jane Borges’ Bombay Balchão...

27 September 2015

Picture This: Adaptation par excellence

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My BL Ink column this month: How Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar (1963) reworked Narendranath Mitra’s original Bangla short story in a mann...

8 July 2015

Picture This: Days and Nights in the City

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My Picture This column in BL Ink this month: Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s ambitiously wordless debut feature, Labour of Love , displays a s...

6 September 2013

A Home in the City? Women in Mahanagar and beyond

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I wasn't quite done with Mahanagar . An essay on women, work and lakshman rekhas, published in the Asian Age , here : Satyajit Ra...

2 September 2013

Post Facto - Watching Ray’s Mahanagar in 2013

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My Sunday Guardian column , on the 50th anniversary of Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar . A still from Mahanagar he tired b...

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