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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8 May 2021

A lifeline, but also a harbinger of doom

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The third column in my series on trains in Indian cinema, for Mirror/TOI Plus: In the cinema of Bimal Roy, the train is often a site of unfo...
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