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 photomagazines. Show all posts

Showing posts with label photomagazines. Show all posts

26 October 2020

The Lives of Others

Watching Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery, in a post-COVID world “The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the da...

16 October 2018

The Chairman and the Mahatma

Walter Bosshard’s photographs of Gandhi and Mao at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art offer a provocative contrast between the leaders of diffe...

3 August 2014

Angry River

In May 2014, I wrote this short text for the photography quarterly PIX . The theme of the issue was Habitat (downloadable for view here ...

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 ...

2 January 2012

Word Play: a piece on photomagazines

A longish review of the photomagazines Pix and Punctum , published in The Caravan , January 2012. Note: The Caravan website has a few se...

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