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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23 November 2020

A day at the museums

My piece for India Today magazine : Connoisseurs can once again visit the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi t...

In Vino Veritas -- II

My Mirror column: In Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game (2015), a drunken day unmasks a society intoxicated with its own sense of...

In vino veritas – I

My Mirror column: Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan’s deceptively simple film The Mosquito Philosophy (2019) leaves you asking, who really are the...

20 November 2020

Short of nothing

My Mirror column for Sun 8 Nov: Among the hundred-odd films screening till tonight in the online edition of the Dharamshala International F...

10 November 2020

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2020: From Pearl of the Desert to Yalda, five must-watch picks

Late to put this piece I wrote for Firstpost up on the blog, this year's online edition of DIFF is over. But these five films are totall...

Art For the Binge-Watcher

A quick wrap of the current art scene for India Today magazine: Virtual platforms are breaking the barriers of social distancing with new wa...

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