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 Walter Benjamin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Walter Benjamin. Show all posts

24 October 2017

Frames of Production

My Mirror column : Rahul Jain's spare and affecting documentary Machines , which is on an award-winning streak, turns our gaze ont...

10 April 2016

Filming the Factory

My BL Ink column this month: Two engrossing documentaries — a German film from 1995 and an Indian one from 2015 — make for a bleak but t...

16 March 2013

Book Review: Channelling the Mahabharata

Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean Via Amruta Patil Harper Collins, Rs 799 Pages: 276 Adi Parva is the richly imagined and stunningly...

17 December 2012

Book Review: dates.sites, a publication of PROJECT CINEMA CITY

This review was published in the Nov-Dec 2012 issue of Biblio . dates.sites Project Cinema City Bombay/Mumbai Tulika B...

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