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 bureaucracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bureaucracy. Show all posts
25 October 2020

The doctor as sufferer

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My Mirror column, sixth in my series on films about doctors: Based on AJ Cronin’s famous 1937 novel The Citadel , Vijay Anand’s medical melo...
6 October 2020

Out of syllabus

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My Mirror column, the second in a series on films about doctors: Ek Doctor Ki Maut 's questions about the life of science seem even more...
2 March 2019

A Dormant Volcano

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My Mirror column : Mrinal Sen's  Chorus , 25 years after it was made, is a chilling reminder of how long India has spent making strid...
10 August 2018

Book review: The Revenge of the Non-vegetarian

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A book review for Scroll : Upamanyu Chatterjee’s new novel is a minimalist study of revenge (and features Agastya Sen’s father).  ...
31 January 2016

Lifted Loosely from Life

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My Mirror column today: True heroes behind Airlift are more super than its star, but babus aren't really the stuff blockbusters are m...
25 August 2014

How to be a Leading Lady

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Yesterday's Mumbai Mirror column : Two new films this week offer compelling portraits of women in power. But must gender roles be cop...
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