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 June 2020

Minding the Gap: Thoughts on Gulabo Sitabo

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My Mirror column: Gulabo Sitabo mines what remains of old Lucknow for visual atmospherics and banter, but both its laughter and it...

22 March 2020

Unsuitable arrangements

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My Mirror column : Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan mainstreams same-sex love and battles the insistence on marriage with wit and warmth. ...

8 December 2019

The arc of appearance

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My Mirror column : Amar Kaushik’s Bala takes a witty Kanpuriya route to show Indian viewers that our preoccupation with surface-level qual...

3 November 2019

Practised to deceive

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My Mirror column : The new Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Dream Girl turns a promising gender-bending premise into a shallow comedy that’s di...

20 July 2019

Status and the status quo

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My Mirror column : Anubhav Sinha’s fearless Article 15 uses a pacy police procedural to make Indians sit up and pay attention to an as...

30 October 2018

Celebrating Acceptance

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My Mirror column : The awkward event of a mature couple having a baby ends up offering an optimistic view of the Indian family in Badhaai ...

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