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 AK Ramanujan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AK Ramanujan. Show all posts
13 November 2019

From Tejimola to Cinderella

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My 'Shelf Life' column for November: Clothes that fit and people that don't: reading Aruni Kashyap’s retelling of a classic ...
11 June 2017

The Poet-Scholar: A.K. Ramanujan

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A conversation about the legendary late poet, translator and scholar AK Ramanujan, occasioned by a fine new book by Prof. Guillerm...
21 November 2011

The Real Demon: Ramlila, Ramanujan, and the freezing of tradition

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A 'Perspectives' essay, published in  The Caravan . The week before Dussehra, I saw several performances of the Ramayana story. I...
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