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 Sharmila Tagore. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Sharmila Tagore. Show all posts

9 May 2021

Satyajit Ray’s world of trains

My column for Mirror/TOI Plus, the fourth in my series on trains in Indian cinema: On the filmmaker’s birth centenary, a look a...

28 February 2021

Good girls, bad ghosts and goddesses

My Mumbai Mirror column Bulbbul reworks ideas from several Bengali film classics to craft a superhuman response to women's depressingly...

21 April 2017

Not Papered Over

My Mirror column : New Delhi Times depicts an Indian media threatened by the growing nexus of business and politics — thirty years ago. ...

8 May 2016

The hero and the human

My BL Ink column on 7 May, 2016: A Satyajit Ray classic that turned 50 this week, Nayak seems to come from a universe that is unrecogn...

29 February 2016

Cover to Cover

A 'Perspectives' piece for The Caravan , about books in Hindi cinema. "People in Hindi movies don’t read many books. ...

26 August 2012

Post Facto: Rajesh Khanna and the women who loved him

From my fortnightly Sunday Guardian column: Like everyone else, I too have an aunt who was besotted with Rajesh Khanna in her adolescen...

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