My Favorite Home Away from Home

My Favorite Home Away from Home, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

The Choti Bargah of Hyderabad a Holy shrine visited by the Hyderabadi locals of the area before going to work , and it is totally packed on Thursdays and during Moharam.

The people here are hospitable caring and love those who come to the Bargah from far places like me.

I had a room in a hotel and Naqi Bhai , had me leave it immediately and move into his house speaks volumes of their sincere and genuine caring nature..

Moharam binds us all and Hussain is the key that opens all doors of Life.

Here Qayam on my right offered me slippers seeing the injuries on my feet actually iit was Qayam who would apply the ointment that healed my feet fast , as a diabetic the process of healing on the feet is very very slow.

The only place in Hyderabad I found myself at Peace was the Choti Bargah and too some extent Hussaini Koti , but unfortunately I had no time on hand to thank them or visit them.

I did not even have time to visit the street gemstone stalls of Hyderabad nor the Sufi Bawas who sit near the Mecca Masjid , I meet them at Ajmer almost every year.

And my chances of going to the Hardwar Kumbh seem to be very bleak, unless I go there with my American friend Dr Glenn Losack MD ..who is going to shoot the Pune and Mumbai Chelum.

The Pune Chehlum is a day before the Mumbai Chehlum , so we will take a cab and return the following morning..Salman an Iranian boy my computer techie is taking us there at Shivaji Nagar I think..I have never shot the Pune Moharam , though I have a lot of friends in Pune , Neerav Panchamiya of E Square and his family that is my extended family too.
The Lucky Hotel guys of Mumbai too have a branch in Pune and are dear friends of mine.
Falling in love and blogging are two things you can do conveniently on an empty stomach too...