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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15 March 2021

When silent films speak of a lost past

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The discovery of a treasure trove of forgotten nitrate films from the early 1900s is the inspiration for a magical...
10 April 2016

Filming the Factory

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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...
14 September 2015

Arresting the Moving Image

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Yesterday's Mirror column :  The Film Heritage Foundation and the painstaking work of storing and restoring India's cinematic ...
6 May 2013

Post Facto -- Celluloid Man: PK Nair & the future of our cinematic past

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My Sunday Guardian column: At one point in Shivendra Singh Dungarpur's affecting documentary — released on 3rd May to coincide wit...
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