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 folktales. Show all posts

Showing posts with label folktales. Show all posts

13 November 2019

From Tejimola to Cinderella

My 'Shelf Life' column for November: Clothes that fit and people that don't: reading Aruni Kashyap’s retelling of a classic ...

11 June 2017

The Poet-Scholar: A.K. Ramanujan

A conversation about the legendary late poet, translator and scholar AK Ramanujan, occasioned by a fine new book by Prof. Guillerm...

24 October 2016

Ram, Lokhon, Sinta. And Sabin.

My Mumbai Mirror column: Altaf Mazid’s film on the Karbi version of the epic underlines why we need all our many Ramayanas. It’s ...

24 October 2015

Picture This: Dark waters

My BL Ink column : Bhaskar Hazarika’s striking directorial debut, Kothanodi, turns the magic realism of the Assamese folk tale into s...

4 August 2013

Talking Pictures: a report on graphic storytelling

As graphic storytelling gains momentum in the world of Indian English literature, a slew of indie publishers become the champions of a new ...

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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