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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3 November 2024

Warp & Weft of History: Mishal Husain's Broken Threads

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I read the BBC presenter's Mishal Husain's family history and then interviewed her about it for this India Today piece: British jour...

12 July 2021

Dilip Kumar exemplified an idea of India we've lost

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My Mirror/TOI Plus column dedicated to the actor Dilip Kumar, who passed on this week: Born in Peshawar and brought to Bombay, he was the tr...

20 February 2021

Book Review: Archaeology and the Public Purpose

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A special book about a special man. My review for Scroll. This study of archaeologist MN Deshpande’s work highlights the integrity and zeal ...

13 January 2019

Blue-sky filmmaking

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My Mirror column : The late Mrinal Sen’s career took off with a 1959 film, Neel Akasher Neechey , a rare portrait of a Chinese protagoni...

30 January 2018

Finding Our Freedom

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My Mirror column : On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was assassinated for trying to stop the killing of Muslims in the new Hindu-majority nat...

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