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 BJP. Show all posts
19 November 2019

Dispatch from Dharamshala – 2

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My Mumbai Mirror column : Films about animals at this year's edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival had powerful th...
20 February 2018

An Extraordinary Election

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My Mirror column: Three years after AAP won a historic mandate in Delhi is a good time to watch Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla’s documen...
5 September 2017

New lamps for old

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Watching BR Chopra’s Naya Daur in Narendra Modi’s New India can produce a strange resonance — even as we look at it across the gulf of six...
6 July 2017

Will it dawn on us?

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My Mirror column : Watching a 1950s film with Sahir Ludhianvi’s utopian lyrics involves mapping the grave distance we have travelled away...
21 February 2016

Insiders, Outsiders: Ghare Baire

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My Mumbai Mirror column today:  Satyajit Ray's film adaptation of Tagore's 1916 novel brings to life the dangers of nationalism,...
12 April 2015

Picture This: Chasing Politics

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Last Saturday's BLink column :  Following Shazia Ilmi through the 2013 Delhi assembly election, a new documentary offers a glimpse i...
22 February 2015

Post Facto -- Mufflers, jhadoos, onions and metros: symbolic politics in our time

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My Sunday Guardian column this month: On 10th February 2015, as news began to come in of the AAP win in Delhi, Facebook, Twitter and...
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