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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28 April 2020

The Rules of the Game

My Mirror column: A neighbourhood chess tournament provides both setting and metaphor in the Ektara Collective’s sharp and delightful i...

Fictional motherlands, real relationships

My Mirror column: Some recent fictions illustrate how totalitarianism thrives on turning on real people into mythical enemies – and pittin...

Home viewing in times of quarantine

My Mirror column: Everything I watch these days seems to be speaking to the current moment. One theme that jumps out at me, film upon fi...

Social maladies

My Mirror column: Two films about contagious infections, in the starkly different milieus of the USA and Kerala, point to the cracks in ...

Status of women, women of status

My Mirror column: Thappad 's single slap shakes the foundations of one marriage, but exposes the imbalances upon which most Indian ...

29 March 2020

What the burqa and the bindi (and the hijab) stand for in our books, and in our current lives

An essay published on the website Scroll.in: There’s a scene in Prayaag Akbar’s 2017 novel Leila that never made it to the Netflix ...

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