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 2021

Shelf Life: Making Love, With Clothes

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My Shelf Life column this month: What did clothes mean to the ancient Indian poet? You wouldn't think it to look at us now, but ancient...

A Kite for Sore Eyes

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My Mumbai Mirror column: In Hardik Mehta's Amdavad Ma Famous and Prashant Bhargava's Patang , a city's universal passion for ki...

20 January 2021

A love that breaks class barriers

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My Mumbai Mirror column: An unlikely relationship reaches across social boundaries in Rohena Gera's understated romance Sir. It may see...

16 January 2021

A Reel Holiday

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My Mirror column: The grand tradition of the holiday movie, from Eric Rohmer to Luca Guadagnino, spins wisdom out of sun-kissed beach breaks...

13 January 2021

What Paava Kadhaigal tells us about pride and honour

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My Mirror column: A new Tamil anthology film makes a flawed but genuine attempt to grapple with the tragic effects of our national preoccup...

Drives with a View - III

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My Mumbai Mirror column: Continuing our series on films about cabbies, we look at why Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese's 1976 creatio...

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