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 domesticity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domesticity. Show all posts
26 October 2020

The Lives of Others

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Watching Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 murder mystery, in a post-COVID world  “The movies make us into voyeurs. We sit in the da...
21 May 2020

"You Maid Me Better"

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Forgot to put this up earlier: my Shelf Life column for April. (Shelf Life is a monthly column I write for the website 'The Voice of...
28 April 2020

Home viewing in times of quarantine

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My Mirror column: Everything I watch these days seems to be speaking to the current moment. One theme that jumps out at me, film upon fi...
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