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 web series. Show all posts

22 March 2021

Not quite queens of all they survey

My Mumbai Mirror column: Bombay Begums may not have top-notch storytelling, but at least it's willing to let its female characters be...

15 September 2020

The context of power, the power of context

My Mumbai Mirror column: The brilliant web series I May Destroy You opens up all the conversations we need to have on sexual assault, and i...

5 September 2020

The faults in our stars - I

My Mumbai Mirror column: the first of a two-part column . What can Indian Matchmaking -- and other recent takes on the arranging of marriag...

28 April 2020

Fictional motherlands, real relationships

My Mirror column: Some recent fictions illustrate how totalitarianism thrives on turning on real people into mythical enemies – and pittin...

31 May 2019

Not a straight line

My Mirror column : Rima Das’s lovely film Bulbul Can Sing offers an empathetic portrait of a queer Indian teenager: a figure who has fina...

15 April 2019

A blinkered vision

First part of my two-part Mirror column on Delhi Crime: Delhi Crime 's retelling of the 'Nirbhaya' investigation is gri...

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