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 January 2018

Finding Our Freedom

My Mirror column : On 30 January 1948, Gandhi was assassinated for trying to stop the killing of Muslims in the new Hindu-majority nat...

24 January 2018

Up in the Clouds

My Mirror column : Soumitra Chatterjee, who turned 83 on 19 January, should be counted among the greatest Indian actors ever, and Mrinal ...

15 January 2018

Heart of darkness

My Mirror column : With Mukkabaaz , Anurag Kashyap has gone where many might fear to tread, crafting a picture of present day North Indi...

7 January 2018

The Year of Sex - II

My Mirror column : Hindi films in 2017 made more space for sex than ever before, but there’s still a self-fulfilling hierarchy to be over...

The Year of Sex - I

My Mirror column: Looking back at what sex has meant in 2017, both onscreen and off. The first of a two-part column. Looking back a...

4 January 2018

We girls are lions

My Mirror column : Young girls battle the odds of childhood in Kampala and Kabul: thoughts on Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe and Yosef B...

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