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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Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1930s. Show all posts
5 April 2021

Book Review: A Gujarati literary legend finds a home in English

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Celebrated Gujarati writer Dhumketu doesn’t get his due in the latest translation of his work Gaurishankar Govardhanram Joshi (1892-1965), ...
28 June 2020

Shelf Life: High Heels, Parkar-Polka and Other Dressing Dilemmas

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My Shelf Life column for June 2020: Clothes mark the lines between modest and modish in theatre actor Vandana Mishra’s memoir, translate...
17 February 2020

The Art of Dress in Isherwood's Berlin

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My Shelf Life column for the website The Voice of Fashion looks at literature through the prism of clothes.  This month, it's about...
13 January 2019

Blue-sky filmmaking

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My Mirror column : The late Mrinal Sen’s career took off with a 1959 film,  Neel Akasher Neechey , a rare portrait of a Chinese protagoni...
27 October 2018

A Star Implodes

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My Mirror column : The newest version of  A Star is Born  updates the classic to our times — but its central narrative remains, more than e...
22 July 2018

Presenting caste as fate

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My Mirror column : The release of Dhadak is a good time to look back at one of Hindi cinema’s first cross-caste romances. I haven’...
29 August 2015

The absurdity of Ayn Rand

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My review of Ideal , by Ayn Rand, in today's Mint Lounge . This early work, published now, reveals that by the 1930s, she had alrea...
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