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 Sahir Ludhianvi. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sahir Ludhianvi. Show all posts

8 June 2020

Book Review: Lost in translation

This review of a new book on Sahir Ludhianvi and his poetry was commissioned much before the lockdown. It finally appeared in print this we...

22 March 2020

A Wizard of Song - II

The second part of my Mirror column on Sahir: Did the great lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi, who would have turned 99 on 8 March, lead a life fill...

A Wizard of Song

My Mirror column: Sahir Ludhianvi, whose 99th birthday it is today, brought remarkable sophistication to the Hindi film lyric, yet never lo...

15 August 2017

Tricks and Treats

My Mirror column: Carrying on our examination of 1957’s biggest Hindi hits, a look at a film which gave us a new kind of exuberant, pra...

6 July 2017

Will it dawn on us?

My Mirror column : Watching a 1950s film with Sahir Ludhianvi’s utopian lyrics involves mapping the grave distance we have travelled away...

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