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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26 March 2025

Photography Review: One Step in their Shoes

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The Passerby, a photo exhibition of Indian street scenes, shows us the worlds we are walking past.  (A short review essay I did for India To...
10 March 2025

"Hindi filmmakers should go back to the drawing board": Interview with Manoj Bajpayee

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A wide-ranging interview with the celebrated Hindi film and OTT actor Manoj Bajpayee, published in Frontline  in May 2024. The team of The F...
3 November 2024

Warp & Weft of History: Mishal Husain's Broken Threads

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I read the BBC presenter's Mishal Husain's family history and then interviewed her about it for this India Today piece: British jour...
20 October 2024

PS Vinothraj: Filmmaker Profile

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PS Vinothraj, whose last film Pebbles was selected as the Indian entry for the 94th Oscars, premiered The Adamant Girl at the Berlin Film ...
14 May 2024

Raam Reddy: ‘Film itself is a character’

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My interview with the filmmaker Raam Reddy, as published in Mint Lounge  on 3 Mar 2024. Raam Reddy on his second feature, ‘The Fable’, and w...
13 March 2024

On the Indian documentary Nocturnes, shot in Arunachal Pradesh, which won an award at Sundance Film Festival 2024

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My review of Anirban Datta and Anupama Srinivasan's documentary Nocturnes.   Nocturnes won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Aw...
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