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 critics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label critics. Show all posts
16 October 2018

A brief guide to Guide

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My Mirror column : 60 years ago,  RK Narayan  wrote a novel that became a Hindi film classic. But he was not happy. Ahead of his 112th birt...
21 June 2015

Stars, scandals and fandom

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Today's Mirror column: Reading in English about Hindi movies: a very brief history of the Indian film magazine as we know it. ...
31 May 2015

English has given me some new access but it is Hindi which has got me fame: Geetanjali Shree

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An interview published in Scroll. The Hindi novelist and short-story writer speaks on why being translated is wonderful, but it is no...
21 May 2015

Interview: Shamsur Rahman Faruqi

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"Urdu was a neglected language, damned as 'foreign' or 'Pakistani'":  The renowned writer SR Faruqi speaks about...
8 December 2014

Post Facto -- Unforeseen effects: Why I love film festivals

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My Sunday Guardian column (written after IFFI 2014): Queuers, conferrers and posers: Outside the INOX complex, at the 2014 IFFI in ...
9 November 2014

Post Facto - Chandigarh Diary: notes from the fringes of a litfest

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The Rock Garden in Chandigarh My Sunday Guardian column today:  I have just returned from my second visit to Chandigarh. The ...
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