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 fascism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fascism. Show all posts
23 November 2020

In Vino Veritas -- II

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My Mirror column: In Sanal Kumar Sasidharan's An Off-Day Game (2015), a drunken day unmasks a society intoxicated with its own sense of...
28 April 2020

Fictional motherlands, real relationships

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My Mirror column: Some recent fictions illustrate how totalitarianism thrives on turning on real people into mythical enemies – and pittin...
17 February 2020

The Art of Dress in Isherwood's Berlin

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My Shelf Life column for the website The Voice of Fashion looks at literature through the prism of clothes.  This month, it's about...
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...
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