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 Rituparno Ghosh. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Rituparno Ghosh. Show all posts

25 April 2014

Post Facto - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Indian Soul

Vintage tea ad suggests tea instead of alcohol . From my Sunday Guardian column: Do you drink tea? If you're Indian and your ...

6 September 2013

A Home in the City? Women in Mahanagar and beyond

I wasn't quite done with Mahanagar . An essay on women, work and lakshman rekhas, published in the Asian Age , here : Satyajit Ra...

29 July 2013

Home and the World: an essay on Rituparno Ghosh's cinema

Home and the World Rituparno Ghosh’s canvas was both intimate and profoundly cinematic COURTESY SHREE VENKATESH FILMS Trisha Gupta 01 July,...

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