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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9 November 2010

Bringing Back the Funk

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Are our films fixated on the 70s? Or just on that decade's cinematic style? And why the 70s anyway? This year’s big-ticket Diwali re...

The Power of the Photograph: Historic Delhi

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A review essay on the 'Historic Delhi' photography exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art, in The Caravan . The Ja...

1 November 2010

Film Preview: Daayen ya Baayen

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THE AUTO MOTIVE: Light-hearted wisdom in the new indie film Daayen Ya Baayen A LITTLE BOY, his mother, his grandmother and a young a...

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27 October 2010

Film Review: Aakrosh

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THE BURNING TRAIL In Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning (1988), two FBI agents with diametrically opposed ways of functioning arrive in a s...

18 October 2010

Theatre Review: Nati Binodini

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Nati Binodini is an ambitious play. It aims at being much more than a biography of the nineteenth-century Bengali prostitute who achie...

Book Review: Multi-Stories

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TAKE ME AWAY, AUNTIE Kalpana Sahni will charm you with her cross-cultural anecdotes. Just don’t expect profundity, says TRISHA GUPTA Multi-S...

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