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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27 July 2014

Secular Masala Zindabad

My Mumbai Mirror column today: Remembering the Big-B starrer Coolie - an iconic film that became famous even before it was made - and...

20 July 2014

Picture This: That Working Class Fan

My BL_Ink column from yesterday: In the grainy darkness, the young man’s face is lit up only by an eerie green light — and by...

How Retro Are Our Romances?

My Mumbai Mirror column today: Our supposedly spunky heroines can't even summon the courage to become someone's dulhaniya. And...

14 July 2014

Post Facto: Too graphic for grown-ups? Thoughts on pictures in books

A spread from the book 'Hope is a Girl Selling Fruit' by Amrita Das. Tara Books, 2013. ave you ever thought about wha...

13 July 2014

Woman, Uninterrupted

Today's Mumbai Mirror column: Vidya Balan's free-spirited performances have opened up a space in our cinema where not just she, b...

Mediterranean Maldives

(In one of those rare moments where my working life suddenly becomes all it's cracked up to be, Outlook Traveller magazine sent me to ...

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