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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28 November 2016

The Trappings of Technology

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My Mirror column: Two great films about unemployed men and machines confront us with the alienations of our time. A whi...
26 November 2016

How to Act the Part

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My Mirror column last week: A theatrical riff on Shammi Kapoor inspires thoughts on moustaches, masculinity and performing the self. ...
20 November 2016

Picture This -- Rinse and repeat

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Yesterday's  BLInk column :  The experience of viewing a film a second time ought to be a tidier, more predictable, repeat of the fi...
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14 November 2016

Bombay Continental

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(A  piece  for Mumbai Mirror's 'Relative Value' section, as Gaylord Restaurant turns 60.) It may be hard to digest for die...
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Found in Adaptation

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My Mirror column:  Sometimes what makes a narrative gripping is not what you don’t know, but what you do. Basil Dearden's All Ni...
7 November 2016

Brown Girls in the Ring

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My Mirror column: An Iranian documentary and an Indian short trace the journeys of tough young Muslim women A still from the short f...
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