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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20 February 2010

Bhanu Athaiya Interview

‘Before My Designs for Waqt , Women Wore Dumpy Salwars’ Bhanu Athaiya, 83, was born Bhanumati Annasaheb Rajopadhye in Kolhapur, Maharasht...

16 February 2010

The Quiet Riot: Dibakar Banerjee profile

The middle class loves Dibakar Banerjee’s films. If only they knew that this is unrequited passion. The first thing Richa Puranesh, Diba...

7 February 2010

Textures of time: Book Review

If it is Sweet By Mridula Koshy Tranquebar Press, New Delhi, 2009, 283 pp., Rs 295 Mridula Koshy’s narrative style is not easy to enter int...

Don’t Just Say Cheese!: The festival of France in India, 2010

A huge new festival is changing our perception of French culture as something inaccessible. IT’S A regular Sunday outside Select Citiwal...

Travelling Light

GEOFF DYER, 51, has made a career of wry, elegant transitions between places and subjects, says TRISHA GUPTA GEOFF DYER is the sort of ma...

'No, not everyone in Bangladesh is a drug addict!'

SHAZIA OMAR’s first novel, Like a Diamond in the Sky , was published by Zubaan in August 2008. She spoke to TRISHA GUPTA about drugs, being ...

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