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 Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Rudyard Kipling. Show all posts

6 September 2020

Shelf Life: Do Clothes Make the Woman?

The August edition of my column for The Voice of Fashion, on clothes seen through the prism of literature: A story from Nisha Susan’s The Wo...

1 May 2016

Back to the Jungle

Watching the new Jungle Book movie in Hindi made me think again about its Indianness. Last week I did something I have never done b...

10 April 2016

The Strength of the Pack

Today's Mumbai Mirror column : A sparkling new adaptation of The Jungle Book is a chance to take a fresh look at Kipling. Th...

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