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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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...

Faces in the crowd

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My Mirror column (17 May 2020): As we are schooled ever more to view India's labouring poor as an undifferentiated mass, Kamal K.M....
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