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 Lipstick Under My Burkha. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Lipstick Under My Burkha. Show all posts

29 March 2020

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

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 ...

9 September 2018

Backing and advancing

My Mirror column : Has the mature woman with a marriage in her past finally become a legitimate recipient of romance in Hindi cinema? ...

7 January 2018

The Year of Sex - II

My Mirror column : Hindi films in 2017 made more space for sex than ever before, but there’s still a self-fulfilling hierarchy to be over...

The Year of Sex - I

My Mirror column: Looking back at what sex has meant in 2017, both onscreen and off. The first of a two-part column. Looking back a...

5 August 2017

Speaking of Sex

My Mirror column : For the women in Lipstick Under My Burkha , words are a necessary weapon on the quest for desire – but they can also w...

26 July 2017

Those Who Dream In Daylight

My Mirror column : Under the easy symbolism of burkhas, lipsticks and cigarettes, Lipstick Under My Burkha is a film that’s urgently ...

19 March 2017

Lady-Oriented Lipstick Dreams

My Mirror column on 5 Mar: Making sense of the CBFC’s recent ruling is tough, but not impossible. Our columnist reaches a speculative co...

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