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 monkeys. Show all posts

19 November 2019

Dispatch from Dharamshala – 2

My Mumbai Mirror column : Films about animals at this year's edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival had powerful th...

10 August 2019

Acrobats of the Upper Canopy

Don’t be fooled by the name or the sharp canines, the endangered lion-tailed ma caque is a shy, fruit-eating primate that inhabits the u...

15 December 2014

The Lions of the Trees

A piece I did on the lion-tailed macaque, for Smithsonian magazine . I had a brilliant time reporting this, though it was chopped drastica...

14 August 2008

Remembering the Revolt

On its 150th anniversary, I map the trajectory of the Revolt of 1857 in Delhi. (A piece written for Time Out Delhi , in May 2007) Mosq...

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