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 Sanal Sasidharan. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sanal Sasidharan. Show all posts

3 October 2022

Making Waves at MoMA

A short essay I wrote for India Today on a festival of contemporary Indian cinema at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2022. ...

23 November 2020

In Vino Veritas -- II

My Mirror column: In Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game (2015), a drunken day unmasks a society intoxicated with its own sense of...

19 June 2018

A Patriarchal Narrative

My Mirror column : Films S Durga and Nude show a reality where Indian women can be either sexual individuals or mothers and sisters —...

Worship, motherhood, lust

My Mirror column : A close look at two of last year’s most ‘controversial’ films – S Durga and Nude – reveals the same demons in the m...

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