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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24 April 2018

Below the Belt

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My Mirror column: It might not always succeed, but Abhinay Deo’s Blackmail is an ambitious comedy with a pretty dark view of the worl...

20 March 2017

Alone in the Urban Jungle

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My Mirror column : Trapped is a harrowing survival movie, but it also takes a sharp look at the Indian city and our particular isolation...

6 February 2017

Best of 2016: Part II

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My Mirror column : The second part of my year-end list of my favourite Indian films from 2016. Carrying on from last week's column: he...

16 January 2017

Women on the verge

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My Mirror column : What might we learn from Hindi films directed by women filmmakers in the year gone by? Anu Menon (dir: Waiting...

28 November 2016

The Trappings of Technology

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My Mirror column: Two great films about unemployed men and machines confront us with the alienations of our time. A whi...

7 September 2016

The Life Support Machine

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My Mirror piece: Ruchika Oberoi's Island City pushes our technologised reality to its starkest logical conclusions. No man is a...

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