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 Bihar. Show all posts
10 March 2025

"Hindi filmmakers should go back to the drawing board": Interview with Manoj Bajpayee

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A wide-ranging interview with the celebrated Hindi film and OTT actor Manoj Bajpayee, published in Frontline  in May 2024. The team of The F...
1 February 2021

Darkness and death in the Indian Jungle

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The pitch-black vision of Aravind Adiga's Booker Prize-winning 2008 novel about class finds new audiences with ...
14 June 2020

The Remembered Village

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My Mirror column (7 June 2020): A young filmmaker's atmospheric Maithili debut refracts the experience of his family's village hom...
3 November 2019

The seventh satyagrahi

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My Mirror column : A look back at KA Abbas’s  Saat Hindustani  (1969), in the 50 th year of its release, must begin with its most famous p...
9 August 2019

Glossing over it

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My Mirror column : The real-life story of Anand Kumar and his free coaching is incredible, but  Super 30  feels like a missed opportunity....
4 June 2017

This Dappled Light

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My Mirror column : Konkona Sen Sharma’s directorial debut eschews high drama for a gentle chiaroscuro of abandon and watchfulness. T...
29 March 2017

Taking Risks with the Risqué

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My Mirror column : Anaarkali of Aarah pushes Hindi cinema’s take on sexuality and consent in exactly the direction it needs to go — and ...
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