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 Suchitra Sen. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Suchitra Sen. Show all posts

8 May 2021

A lifeline, but also a harbinger of doom

The third column in my series on trains in Indian cinema, for Mirror/TOI Plus: In the cinema of Bimal Roy, the train is often a site of unfo...

12 June 2019

Letters to an audience

My Mirror column : An evening with Gulzar, poet, lyricist, filmmaker, centred on a discussion of three of his films, offers clues to his s...

5 May 2014

Not Papered Over

40 years old today, Kora Kagaz remains a powerful portrait of cracks in a marriage. Sometime last week I stumbled up...

7 March 2014

Post Facto - Beauty is the beast

My Sunday Guardian column for March 1st: Suchitra Sen In a sketch that's part of the Tadpole Repertory's superb play Tara...

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