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 May 2021

The train ride as a technological fantasy

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My TOI Plus/ Mumbai Mirror column: In popular 1970s Hindi cinema, the train became central to an imagined world of infrastructu...
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