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 January 2017

2016: From Fact to Fiction

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My Mirror column : A list of my favourite films from 2016 – in which real life is a recurring theme. The year-end list is a bit of...

22 January 2017

Picture This: Dreaming Delhi, Documenting Delhi

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My BLInk column : A set of striking student films demonstrate that ten sharply-focused minutes can open our eyes to worlds through which ...

Growing up is hard to do

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My Mirror column : Shlok Sharma's Haraamkhor makes you think about sex and seduction – and about the meaning of adulthood. In ...

16 January 2017

Women on the verge

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My Mirror column : What might we learn from Hindi films directed by women filmmakers in the year gone by? Anu Menon (dir: Waiting...

5 January 2017

Men on the Ropes

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My Mirror column : Dangal grapples with wrestling’s tradition of masculinity — and Indianness. On the simplest level, the tale tol...

26 December 2016

The Eyes of the Beholder

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My Mirror column : On watching Mirch Masala 30 years after Smita Patil’s death, and being struck by the film’s complicated relationshi...

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