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 magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic. Show all posts
9 August 2019

Glossing over it

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My Mirror column : The real-life story of Anand Kumar and his free coaching is incredible, but  Super 30  feels like a missed opportunity....
20 November 2012

Post Facto: Keys to another world

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My column for the Sunday Guardian this fortnight. A large part of my adult life has been spent inside books. There are books I read to...
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2 August 2012

Old Magic In New Bottle Deptt.

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Delhi now has a magic theatre. In a mall. I went.  Until recently, the magic show in India had a well-defined aesthetic that drew on...
14 August 2008

Is IT a bird? Witchcraft and the Computer Course

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An essay I wrote in January 2002, some months after finishing a Social Anthropology degree at Cambridge, and in the immediate wake of a vi...
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