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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10 March 2019

Flight into the wild

My Mirror column : An evocative new film melds classic Western motifs with a vision of the Chambal wilderness, using a gang of 1970s dacoit...

2 March 2012

Paan Singh Tomar: Not just another daku film

A young army jawaan returns two days late from his leave. Army discipline requires that he be punished, so he is told to pick up his lu...

27 January 2010

Sujit Saraf: "Indians are cutthroat. [But] people in India are merely reacting to their environment, just as people abroad are."

THE CONFESSION OF SULTANA DAKU Sujit Saraf Penguin India 296 pp; Rs 399 Sujit Saraf, 39, is a space scientist who has worked at NASA....

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