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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4 January 2024

Book Review: Anuja Chauhan's 'Club You To Death'

Decided to update the blog in the new year, with pieces I've written in the interim. This is a book review I did for Scroll in 2021 and ...

30 October 2022

The Pain of Others: a short review essay on Somnath Hore

S omnath Hore was a great artist of collective hope and hardship, but his abiding legacy is to make us feel each human tragedy as our own. ...

3 October 2022

Making Waves at MoMA

A short essay I wrote for India Today on a festival of contemporary Indian cinema at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2022. ...

9 August 2021

Do you know who wrote your favourite film?

My TOI Plus/ Mumbai Mirror column for Sun 25 July: Writers barely get the credit they deserve — a new book on women screenwriters in Bollywo...

12 July 2021

Dilip Kumar exemplified an idea of India we've lost

My Mirror/TOI Plus column dedicated to the actor Dilip Kumar, who passed on this week: Born in Peshawar and brought to Bombay, he was the tr...

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...

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