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 Indian Express. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Indian Express. Show all posts

23 May 2011

Educating Stanley

My op-ed piece in the Indian Express: Where Hindi teachers are always khadoos Amole Gupte's Stanley ka Dabba , released last wee...

7 February 2009

Mangalore mistakes

This isn't about liberal freedoms so much as gender -- and class Why has the debate occasioned by the incident of violence against women...

6 December 2008

A house full of TVs: thoughts on Oye Lucky Lucky Oye

An edited version of this was published in the Indian Express, Dec 6, 2008. India's fault lines, explored in a film about a Del...

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