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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13 January 2021

Drives with a view - II

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My Mirror column: Two Iranian films - Jafar Panahi's 2015 Taxi Tehran and Abbas Kiarostami's 2002 Ten - use the taxi ride as a ...

10 November 2020

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2020: From Pearl of the Desert to Yalda, five must-watch picks

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Late to put this piece I wrote for Firstpost up on the blog, this year's online edition of DIFF is over. But these five films are totall...

7 November 2016

Brown Girls in the Ring

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My Mirror column: An Iranian documentary and an Indian short trace the journeys of tough young Muslim women A still from the short f...

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15 March 2015

Things I learned at the Asian Women’s Festival

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Why should gender be a factor in our viewing any form of art? My report on the IAWRT's Asian Women's Film Festival, for Yahoo Or...

8 December 2014

Post Facto -- Unforeseen effects: Why I love film festivals

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My Sunday Guardian column (written after IFFI 2014): Queuers, conferrers and posers: Outside the INOX complex, at the 2014 IFFI in ...

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