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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24 October 2016

Ram, Lokhon, Sinta. And Sabin.

My Mumbai Mirror column: Altaf Mazid’s film on the Karbi version of the epic underlines why we need all our many Ramayanas. It’s ...

17 October 2016

The Company of Strangers

My Mirror column: What we miss out on by watching movies on our laptops, we regain by going to film festivals. As Durga Puja and D...

10 October 2016

A Saleable Stardom

My Mirror column yesterday: A sanitised film on MS Dhoni packages our yearning for heroes into a marketable sense of self-worth. ...

4 October 2016

A Feminist Fairy Tale

My Mirror column : A picture-perfect desert village serves as the setting for Parched ’s fantasy of female freedom. Leena Yadav’s Pa...

1 October 2016

Singular and Plural: Krishna Sobti’s unique picture of a less divided India

My long overdue longform profile of the extraordinary writer Krishna Sobti was published in The Caravan in September. Images from ...

Tripping the Light Fantastic

My Mirror column : An evocative new non-fiction film immerses us in the enchanting world of Chandannagar's light artists. Alm...

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