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 March 2015

Shashi Kapoor, the perfect partner

My Mirror column today: Whether paired with Amitabh Bachchan, Shabana Azmi or his wife Jennifer onscreen, the understandably secure Sha...

23 March 2015

Post Facto: Flipping the script for Urdu?

This month's Post Facto column, for the Sunday Guardian : Last weekend, Jashn-e-Rekhta, a "celebration of Urdu", unfolde...

22 March 2015

Sex and the Single Man

My Mirror column today: Harshvardhan Kulkarni's indulgent but refreshingly forthright film Hunterrr opens a much-needed window onto...

Book review: Of pirs and Peter engines

A book review, published in BLink on Saturday. The everyday is both enchanted and stark in these crackling tales from Pakistan. What ...

17 March 2015

Highway to Hell: Thoughts on NH10

My Mirror column last Sunday: Navdeep Singh's NH10 takes the road out of Gurgaon to a chilling, edge-of-your-seat conclusion you...

16 March 2015

Picture This: Walking in Sathyu's Shoes?

The March edition of Picture This, my monthly BLink column : Four decades after Garm Hava comes a lively documentary on the Agra sho...

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