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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14 June 2020

Far from the feudal

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My Mirror column (14 Jun 2020): Has Indian cinema gained or lost something as filmmakers become increasingly distanced from the village? ...
11 June 2020

Driven from home - II

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My Mirror column (31 May 2020):   The second of a two-part column. Balraj Sahni's suffering rickshawala in Do Bigha Zamin (1953) in...

Driven From Home - I

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My Mirror column (24 May 2020): It’s time to revisit Bimal Roy’s 1953 neorealist melodrama, Do Bigha Zamin , which remains one of the ear...
29 May 2017

The Romantic Realist

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My Mirror column : KA Abbas, who left us 30 years ago this June 1, spent a lifetime seeking to turn the dross of city life into fiction...
8 May 2017

A Political Actor

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My Mirror column : Balraj Sahni would have turned 104 on May 1. What made him such an unusual figure in Indian filmdom? Measuring a...
30 July 2013

Post Facto - Habib Tanvir’s Naya Theatre: Newness arising from the old

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My Sunday Guardian column this fortnight: Habib Tanvir abib Tanvir created the repertory company Naya Theatre along wit...
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