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 demonetisation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demonetisation. Show all posts
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...
5 September 2017

New lamps for old

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Watching BR Chopra’s Naya Daur in Narendra Modi’s New India can produce a strange resonance — even as we look at it across the gulf of six...
22 December 2016

Picture This: Signs of the Times

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My BL Ink column : on watching Naseeb in demonetized India. I watched Manmohan Desai’s 1981 hit Naseeb , and it spoke strangely to the wo...
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