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 adivasis. Show all posts

28 June 2021

Saving the tiger and wildlife will take more than a few Shernis

My TOI Plus column: The man-animal conflict in India is a complex, burgeoning problem, and one that is left unaddressed both by our national...

4 June 2021

How Benegal turned an '80s train ride into a journey of self-discoveries

For my weekly column in Mirror/TOI Plus, the seventh piece in a series on trains in Indian cinema: Shyam Benegal's thought-provoking te...

20 November 2017

The Art of the State - II

My Mirror column : Schools, guns and graffiti in two films about the Indian state: When the Woods Bloom and Newton. (This is the seco...

The Art of the State

My Mirror column : What two films might tell us about Maoists, violence and how different the state looks depending on which end of the s...

14 August 2008

Is IT a bird? Witchcraft and the Computer Course

An essay I wrote in January 2002, some months after finishing a Social Anthropology degree at Cambridge, and in the immediate wake of a vi...

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