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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13 January 2021

Everyone wants a happy ending

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Ludo tries hard to present the world as breezily anarchic, but it's hard to sustain while going on about good...

8 September 2018

A sympathetic spirit

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My Mirror column : Do the men haunted by a female ghost learn any lessons in Amar Kaushik’s affable small-town comedy? One, don’t l...

20 November 2017

The Art of the State

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My Mirror column : What two films might tell us about Maoists, violence and how different the state looks depending on which end of the s...

30 October 2017

Making and Unmaking Men

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My Mirror column : In films as disparate as Rukh , Bareilly ki Barfi and A Death in the Gunj , games of masculinity are depressingly i...

20 March 2017

Alone in the Urban Jungle

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My Mirror column : Trapped is a harrowing survival movie, but it also takes a sharp look at the Indian city and our particular isolation...

25 October 2013

Film Review: Shahid

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Hansal Mehta’s biopic Shahid released last week, two and a half years after the still-unsolved death of the 33-year-old criminal defen...

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