The Nazar on the Bajra

The Nazar on the Bajra, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

All this is on the Bajra or the boat, as soon as it berths the crowds from the pier start entering the boat, to taste the Nazar, which consists of halwa puri, sweets of all varieties ..and it gets packed completely , they move out another lot come in and more than thousands of people only male partake in this event on the boat,above near the pier is a section for the ladies to taste the nazar too, and it is an irony I stayed close to the Gateway of India , but never came here , when we were kids, even my mother a diabetic came and saw this once just a few days before she died on 21 Shaban.

My wife makes it a point to come here from Bandra ..we hardly have to visit our ancestral home near Strand Cinema.

We come here and get back to Bandra as fast as we can.

This is a very momentous event for the Shias of Mumbai, eagerly awaited by Shia poets ..who have to yell out their poetry in praise of the Imams to really be heard.

But there are a lot of Shias in Mumbai who do not even know about this event , main stream media hardly covers events like this..all this is left for the blogger to shoot and share on the internet.