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 nature writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nature writing. Show all posts
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...
5 April 2021

Book Review: What would human history look like if told through our relationships with animals?

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Simon Barnes’s ‘The History of the World in 100 Animals’ is a unique way of looking back – and around. If you have the slightest curiosity...
3 November 2019

The Pearly Gates

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My Mirror column : An octogenarian Uttarakhandi farmer offers up an unusual model of the good life in an inspiring new documentary called...
10 August 2019

Acrobats of the Upper Canopy

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Don’t be fooled by the name or the sharp canines, the endangered lion-tailed ma caque is a shy, fruit-eating primate that inhabits the u...
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