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 June 2018

From English to Kannada to Kannada to English: Tejaswini Niranjana’s mirrored path to translation

My interview with a polyglot cultural theorist on the practice of translation. Published in Scroll . Tejaswini Niranjana is a wel...

19 June 2018

A Patriarchal Narrative

My Mirror column : Films S Durga and Nude show a reality where Indian women can be either sexual individuals or mothers and sisters —...

Worship, motherhood, lust

My Mirror column : A close look at two of last year’s most ‘controversial’ films – S Durga and Nude – reveals the same demons in the m...

7 June 2018

State secrets, secret states

My Mirror column: Raazi successfully inserts itself into existing Bollywood narratives — on Indo-Pak ties, Muslims, nationalism and woma...

6 June 2018

Studio portraits

My Mirror column : The mid-20th century Tamil film world of SS Vasan and Gemini Studios had a marvellous chronicler in the late Ashokami...

24 May 2018

Life, Tamil cinema style

My Mirror column: What does cinema stand for in Tamil fiction? The second of a multi-part column on films and life in Tamil Nadu. ...

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