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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31 December 2019

A Student of Resistance

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My Mumbai Mirror column : As India's students speak out, it seems worth recalling a film about a student who defied another regim...
7 May 2019

The life therapeutic

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My Mirror column: A new webseries called  Sex Education  offers a rare mixture of insight, humour and warmth on sex and its many minefield...
15 April 2019

Game of thrones

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My Mirror column : Despite its '70s  sarkaari  aesthetic (Akbar Hotel's modernist Mughalia and Doordarshan-style songs),  Kissa...
27 August 2018

The Sharpshooter

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My Mirror column : Ismat Chughtai  would have turned 107 on August 21. Who was she and why should she be the subject of a column on cinema?...
7 January 2018

The Year of Sex - I

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My Mirror column: Looking back at what sex has meant in 2017, both onscreen and off. The first of a two-part column. Looking back a...
19 March 2017

Lady-Oriented Lipstick Dreams

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My Mirror column  on 5 Mar: Making sense of the CBFC’s recent ruling is tough, but not impossible. Our columnist reaches a speculative co...
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