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 Tejaswini Niranjana. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Tejaswini Niranjana. Show all posts

24 November 2020

Shelf Life: Out of Vaidehi's Closet

My Shelf Life column for October 2020: The link between clothes, sexual attractiveness and power is incestuous and can be unnerving. Kannad...

25 June 2018

From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation

My interview with a polyglot cultural theorist on the practice of translation. Published in Scroll . Tejaswini Niranjana is a wel...

31 March 2018

Book review - No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories

Kannada writer Jayant Kaikini’s evocative stories are infused with the body and soul of Mumbai. Set in Mumbai, and translated int...

20 November 2011

Book Review: The Best of Quest

This selection of articles from Quest, a socio-political and literary Indian magazine from the 1950s and 60s, offers perspectives that are ...

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