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 Rahi Masoom Raza. Show all posts
26 February 2018

Book Review: Rahi Masoom Raza's Scene 75

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Behind the Scene My review of the remarkable 1978 Hindi novel, Scene 75, recently out in Poonam Saxena's English translation: ...
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9 February 2018

The fictions of filmdom

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My Mirror column: Rahi Masoom Raza's biting 1977 novel Scene 75 is a brutally frank and funny account of the Bombay film industry...
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