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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2 August 2020

In the dark of the night

My Mirror column: The absorbing Raat Akeli Hai stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a UP cop learning a little about himself as he unravels a web...

Book Review: The Dark Hours

I reviewed the new translation of a 97-year-old Bengali book, for India Today magazine. A 1923 bhadralok account of Calcutta's seamy sid...

27 July 2020

All the perfumes of Arabia

My Mirror column: Uplifting and devastating by turns, Vinod Kamble’s 2019 debut feature Kastoori (The Musk) is the kind of coming-of-age na...

26 July 2020

The Reel Life of MS Sathyu - II

My Mirror column (a sequel to last week's piece): In honour of his 90th birthday earlier this month, a look back at MS Sathyu's u...

13 July 2020

The reel life of MS Sathyu - 1

My Mumbai Mirror column for July 12: In honour of his 90th birthday on July 6, a look back at some of MS Sathyu's notable contributions...

An archive of expressions: On Saroj Khan

My Mirror column for July 5: The late Saroj Khan created a new kind of dancing body on the Hindi film screen, but she also embodied a...

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