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 protest. Show all posts

Showing posts with label protest. Show all posts

6 September 2020

Shelf Life: Do Clothes Make the Woman?

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...

29 March 2020

What the burqa and the bindi (and the hijab) stand for in our books, and in our current lives

An essay published on the website Scroll.in: There’s a scene in Prayaag Akbar’s 2017 novel Leila that never made it to the Netflix ...

15 April 2019

In the name of a cause

Second part of my two-part Mirror column on Delhi Crime: Almost unconsciously, Delhi Crime puts its finger on the disconnect between t...

9 October 2017

The Securing of Freedom

My Mirror column: Young women on campuses are waging a war against inequality, most recently seen in the events at BHU. Bina Paul’s do...

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