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 2015

A River Runs Through It

Yesterday's Mirror column: Masaan brings to life a Banaras of sweetness and power, melding the ache of the old with the shock of the...

24 July 2015

Interview: KR Meera

The explosive Malayali writer KR Meera talks on the need to preserve regional languages in literature and the value of translation. ...

8 July 2015

Picture This: Days and Nights in the City

My Picture This column in BL Ink this month: Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s ambitiously wordless debut feature, Labour of Love , displays a s...

Speaking English, Doing Desi

Last Sunday's Mumbai Mirror column: 'Convent' English, Hinglish and the non-filmi journalist: the last in a three-part series...

29 June 2015

CineVoice of the Nation

My Mirror column: Continuing my short history of the Indian film magazine in English: editor Burjor K Karanjia and his many publications. ...

Book Review: Regret -- by Ikramullah

Published in Scroll : With ‘Regret’, Urdu fiction in translation reveals a writer of courage and beauty. The two novellas in this volum...

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