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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29 March 2020

What the burqa and the bindi (and the hijab) stand for in our books, and in our current lives

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An essay published on the website Scroll.in: There’s a scene in Prayaag Akbar’s 2017 novel Leila that never made it to the Netflix ...
24 June 2011

Alice Albinia: Epic Trawler

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While Alice Albinia, the non-fiction writer, refuses to tell a well-worn tale, Albinia the novelist succumbs easily to reductive depictions ...
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