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 Mother India. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mother India. Show all posts
23 October 2017

Greed is (Now) Good

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My piece for the Indian Express  Eye's Diwali issue on money. Once, bad guys had all the cash. But like the audience, contemporary H...
29 September 2017

The Religion of Women

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What can Mehboob Khan's Mother India , the biggest Hindi hit of 1957 and our first entry to the Oscars in 1958, tell us about our idea...
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