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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20 November 2017

The Art of the State - II

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My Mirror column : Schools, guns and graffiti in two films about the Indian state: When the Woods Bloom and Newton. (This is the seco...

The Art of the State

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My Mirror column : What two films might tell us about Maoists, violence and how different the state looks depending on which end of the s...

Familial Fault Lines

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My Mirror column: Arshad Khan’s documentary memoir Abu bravely opens up a personal and familial history, touching on issues of cultural a...
7 November 2017

Machines director Rahul Jain on his acclaimed film: 'In India, inequality stares back at you'

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Rahul Jain's debut  Machines  is a compelling, deceptively simple cinematic essay on the dehumanising effects of labour, set in a clot...
30 October 2017

Making and Unmaking Men

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My Mirror column : In films as disparate as Rukh , Bareilly ki Barfi and A Death in the Gunj , games of masculinity are depressingly i...
24 October 2017

Frames of Production

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My Mirror column : Rahul Jain's spare and affecting documentary  Machines , which is on an award-winning streak, turns our gaze ont...
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