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 Aligarh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aligarh. Show all posts
3 November 2024

Warp & Weft of History: Mishal Husain's Broken Threads

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I read the BBC presenter's Mishal Husain's family history and then interviewed her about it for this India Today piece: British jour...
24 January 2017

2016: From Fact to Fiction

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My Mirror column : A list of my favourite films from 2016 – in which real life is a recurring theme. The year-end list is a bit of...
28 February 2016

The Media and the Mob

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My Mirror column today: Hansal Mehta's Aligarh is both a tragic bio-pic and a finely-wrought critique of our mediatised present. ...
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