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 September 2020

The context of power, the power of context

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The brilliant web series I May Destroy You opens up all the conversations we need to have on sexual assault, and i...

28 June 2020

Virtually Masterful: Raja Ravi Varma on Google Arts and Culture

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A piece for the latest issue of India Today , on a new Raja Ravi Varma exhibition -- online. In Reena Mohan’s 1992 document...

20 May 2018

Meet the American who translates some of India’s finest Hindi writers into English: Daisy Rockwell

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An interview I did for Scroll : ‘I was tired of translating detailed descriptions of male desire and women’s breasts.’ Daisy Rockwe...

4 February 2016

"I’m too old to do things I don’t enjoy."-- An Interview with Margaret Atwood

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I had the privilege of interviewing the writer Margaret Atwood during her recent visit to India. The published interview, for Vantage , is...

24 January 2016

Not quite by the book

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My Mirror column today: As the Jaipur Litfest unfolds, here's a look at publishers and publishing -- as projected onto the Hindi fil...

14 June 2015

Bengali writers know that unless they reach London, nothing will happen: Sankar

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My interview with Sankar, published in Scroll . Sankar (Mani Sankar Mukherjee) is perhaps Bengal's best-selling contemporary wri...

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