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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8 January 2020

The ghosts among us

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My Mumbai Mirror column: A new anthology film about the supernatural is a mixed bag, but it does try to point Hindi fi...

31 December 2019

A Student of Resistance

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My Mumbai Mirror column : As India's students speak out, it seems worth recalling a film about a student who defied another regim...

30 December 2019

"Fiction should prophesy the future": Benyamin

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With his new book [in English translation] hitting stores, Benyamin says novel-writing is now a purely political act. (A short author p...

24 December 2019

Do weep for Salim the lame

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro won two National Awards in 1989. Thirty years later, its fierce indictment of the worki...

18 December 2019

Countries of the Mind

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Solitary young immigrant men traverse Parisian streets in Na Read more at: https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/opinion/columnists/tris...

13 December 2019

The Catholic Dress: Bombay to Goa and Back

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My Shelf Life column for TVOF: The dress-wearing Catholic girl was an object of Indian male fantasy, but as Jane Borges’ Bombay Balchão...

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