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 persona. Show all posts
Showing posts with label persona. Show all posts
6 September 2020

Shelf Life: Do Clothes Make the Woman?

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The August edition of my column for The Voice of Fashion, on clothes seen through the prism of literature: A story from Nisha Susan’s The Wo...
17 July 2018

Once more, with feeling

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My Mirror column : On the centenary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth, it’s worth thinking about what made him one of the greatest filmmakers of ...
24 April 2018

A Muted Sharpness

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My Mumbai Mirror column: The brilliant Jaya Bhaduri, who turned 70 earlier this month, once specialised in being the thinking man’s girl...
1 September 2014

The Confidence Man

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Yesterday's Mumbai Mirror column : Emraan Hashmi has perfected a persona whose unapologetic appetite for the good life (both sex a...
21 February 2012

A Kapoor by Chance

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My tribute to Rishi Kapoor, published in Open magazine in 2012: Rishi is the least Kapoor-like of the Kapoors: shorn of the family mann...
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