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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30 May 2016

Inside, Outside

My Mirror column on Phobia: Pawan Kripalani's smart new horror movie goes the psychological route, but stops a bit short of its poli...

22 May 2016

The Untamed Heart of India

My Mirror column for 22 May, 2016: Sairat delivers both a compelling tribute and an astutely-aimed punch to decades of Indian film r...

16 May 2016

Of star-spangled banners

My Mirror column on 15 May 2016: An award-winning documentary looks at the last surviving practitioners of a dwindling art form: hand-pa...

9 May 2016

Twins from a Temple Town

My Mirror column for 8 May 2016: Two recent Marathi films use a very similar set of ingredients to create different portraits of Pandhar...

8 May 2016

The hero and the human

My BL Ink column on 7 May, 2016: A Satyajit Ray classic that turned 50 this week, Nayak seems to come from a universe that is unrecogn...

1 May 2016

Back to the Jungle

Watching the new Jungle Book movie in Hindi made me think again about its Indianness. Last week I did something I have never done b...

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