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 talk of the town. Show all posts

Showing posts with label talk of the town. Show all posts

13 August 2012

Film Festival Deptt.

From my Sunday Guardian column : Among the ‘unmissable’ sights at the recently-concluded 12 th Osian’s Cinefan festival was that of A...

2 July 2012

Half-century Advertising Deptt: Utterly, Butterly Delicious

From my Sunday Guardian column: In the year 1966, the advertising campaign for a butter brand was assigned to an agency in Bombay. The b...

17 June 2012

Oddball Publicity Deptt: Shanghai meets Bharat Mata in JNU

This week's ' Post Facto' column. Five days before his new film was due to be released, director Dibakar Banerjee made an une...

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