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 January 2011

Not quite the belly of Delhi: No One Killed Jessica review

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THERE’S A MOMENT in No One Killed Jessica when a girl — someone we’ve never seen — watches the candlelight vigil scene in Rang De Basanti , ...

17 January 2011

Twist in the Wedding

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Why the shaadi is still a staple of Bollywood romance Bittoo Sharma first meets Shruti Kakkar at a wedding. She’s rude to him, but he’...

12 January 2011

The Dark Knight: Akira Kurosawa

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Kurosawa's cinema may seem to be about heroic action, but heroes, in the end, are merely human. One of my most vivid cinematic memor...

1 December 2010

Delhi: Postcards from the Last Century

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On a photography exhibition: Images courtesy of Alkazi Foundation for the Arts The Alkazi Foundation’s newest exhibition of vintage pho...

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...

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