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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25 April 2016

Good Fans and Bad Fans

My Mirror column yesterday : Watching Fan made me think about the lives of Indian film fans, both on and off the silver screen. N...

24 April 2016

Book Review: Shashi Deshpande's Strangers to Ourselves

A review I wrote for Scroll : Shashi Deshpande's new novel is a dignified investigation of that thing called love. The cover...

17 April 2016

Mining the Mother Lode

My Mirror column today: Is there a new kind of Hindi film mother? Or have they become so complicated that they transcend the category...

11 April 2016

Film Festival: Mise en City

An essay on the Urban Lens festival, published in Open magazine. A vibrant new film festival portrays the multiplicity of claims o...

10 April 2016

Filming the Factory

My BL Ink column this month: Two engrossing documentaries — a German film from 1995 and an Indian one from 2015 — make for a bleak but t...

The Strength of the Pack

Today's Mumbai Mirror column : A sparkling new adaptation of The Jungle Book is a chance to take a fresh look at Kipling. Th...

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