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 ...
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