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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23 November 2020

In Vino Veritas -- II

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My Mirror column: In Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game (2015), a drunken day unmasks a society intoxicated with its own sense of...
15 April 2019

Game of thrones

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My Mirror column : Despite its '70s  sarkaari  aesthetic (Akbar Hotel's modernist Mughalia and Doordarshan-style songs),  Kissa...
2 March 2019

A Dormant Volcano

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My Mirror column : Mrinal Sen's  Chorus , 25 years after it was made, is a chilling reminder of how long India has spent making strid...
29 June 2015

CineVoice of the Nation

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My Mirror column: Continuing my short history of the Indian film magazine in  English: editor Burjor K Karanjia and his many publications. ...
27 November 2008

Column: Raat ka Reporter

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The third instalment of a column for Time Out Delhi, about books set in Delhi. Signs of the Times Nirmal Verma’s novel Raat ka Reporter , s...
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