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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29 April 2014

It's all about English-vinglish

Last Sunday's Mumbai Mirror column : In its zeal to appear aspirational, Bollywood has stopped adapting stories from regional languag...

27 April 2014

Picture This: Different Tyrannies

Nisha Pahuja's new documentary tracks young women through two Indias: a beauty pageant and a Hindutva camp. (This month's BLInk ...

25 April 2014

Post Facto - The Long Dark Tea-time of the Indian Soul

Vintage tea ad suggests tea instead of alcohol . From my Sunday Guardian column: Do you drink tea? If you're Indian and your ...

20 April 2014

States of the Heart

My Mirror column: The Punjabi-TamBrahm cross-connection has a long comic lineage in Hindi cinema The protagonists of 2 States – Chetan Bhag...

15 April 2014

Cheers to the Drunken Song

My Mumbai Mirror column from last Sunday. Hema Malini offers a faux-apology for (faux-)drunkenness to an outraged Sanjeev Kumar. See...

9 April 2014

To Catch a Star

A short piece I wrote for Nat Geo Traveller . To experience Goa’s most laid-back pleasure, look to the heavens. “The Starry Night”...

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