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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19 November 2019

Dispatch from Dharamshala – 2

My Mumbai Mirror column : Films about animals at this year's edition of the Dharamshala International Film Festival had powerful th...

13 November 2019

Dispatch from Dharamshala – 1

My Mirror column : The Dharamshala International Film Festival, now in its eighth year, is still the most intimate, charming setting in w...

From Tejimola to Cinderella

My 'Shelf Life' column for November: Clothes that fit and people that don't: reading Aruni Kashyap’s retelling of a classic ...

3 November 2019

Speak, memory

My Mirror column : Ritesh Batra’s Photograph is an underappreciated gem of a film, gleaming with quiet revelations about the stories w...

Poetry in stealth mode

My Mirror column : Fifty years after its release, Saat Hindustani feels both like a time capsule and a swinging pendulum: showing wha...

The seventh satyagrahi

My Mirror column : A look back at KA Abbas’s Saat Hindustani (1969), in the 50 th year of its release, must begin with its most famous p...

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