I Have Turned My Back On Facebook

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On the face of it and this is I say with sheer honesty and pain, I have perhaps a million flaws but I am what my parents put in me, I have never boasted of being literate in a pedantic or a showy way,

I have read books but luckily no book has inspired me to write the way I write I write from my heart . my verse is simple words I dont use a dictionary , perhaps I play with the same end words adding a new context every time I pen my pain.


I dont plagiarize .

The only two people who influenced me to shoot pictures the way they wrote their stories is Honore de Balzac and Charles Dickens , Dostovesky to some extent.

I shot Dickensian characters in Mumbai in my local surroundings Uriah Heep. Micawber , Fat boy, Barkis Aunt Peggoty and so on and so forth.

I feel pain much more than you as I am constantly shooting pain in one form or the other .

So the attack on me by holier than though Keralite pompous pedantic Satheesh Balachandran, took me by surprise, I always respected him, and he commented on my posts , and he is presumably a man of letters , well read from Guruvayur Trichur Kerala , a land where the sun of education never sets.And I mean it I dont want to criticize a State of my country for the fault of one of its children or even if a few disgruntled souls chop a mans hand because he has insulted their religion.

If I have something to say I always use personal mail instead of writing on somebody's wall , I will not be so blatant I was never bought up that way, nor am I a racist ,.but we Indians and it is flaw in our genes are the biggest Racists after all.

We read someone , we see his pictures we comment on his pictures write sweet nothings praise him but hate him and this hate could be for several reasons I dont prostitute dead writers or their books..I am a street photographer I blog..

What I am is amply displayed though my pictures and my poems.

You want to promote your blogs go to Alpha Inventions or Condron , why pimp it through my wall or sending me spam mail.


So Satheesh Baachandrans words should be read ,in the context of hate for an Indian blogger , perhaps some time back a few Keralite Muslims might have tried to gang rape him or tried to chop of his uncut manhood or hands , that he uses me as a punching bag to get even with me is in real bad taste , I did nothing to provoke him no abusive missive no abusive comment..

I only comment on peoples post or feed or update if I know them I maintain great distance from the Bollywoods fraternity on my contact list too., who know me more as a couturier and not as a photographer or blogger.

All my blogs originate at Flickr and than a few to Facebook or Twitter.

I tag a friend if I have written or mentioned about him in a poem , most of my Facebook friends have made me a more mature and better poet than I was , I have written gibberish abusive stuff when I first started out writing my slam poetry 6 years back at Buzznet and Blogspot.


And I dont consider Jorge Luis Borges as my mentor he certainly could not teach me the ancestral values of humanity and humility of my birth.

So sending a personal message in very simple English asking a person not to send me chain mail but a person to person mail, upsets his literary ego, the nights he spent sleepless in Kerala to create his blog is water over his dead mothers ass.

I was not sarcastic , I was human , the flawed system of notifications at Facebook would force anyone to deactivate his account, they just keep coming once you are tagged in a picture or a message.

I have no time and mostly remove such posts or my tag, but I cant do that on the message one sends me.


I want someone to read my post I send him a message with the link of the post.

I dont write virulent stuff or post porn.


So if you are plagued and suffering from Schizophrenia, Metaphysical menopause why pick on me , Mr Satheesh Balachandran..you added me I did not come to add you , you should have dropped me like a hot potato right in the beginning why did you burn at the stake because I click click what I click, I bet you cant hold a frickin camera like my grand daughter holds and clicks , I bet you have never written your own stuff you conceited man an insult to my nationality.

So now read Satheesh Balachandrans message to me sent via my Facebook mailbox.. nothing but hate for a prolific Indian be it a Muslim blogger of no repute.

Satheesh Balachandran to me


Satheesh Balachandran06 August 2010 at 10:00

Re: thanks this was in subject to a mail I sent him not to tag me in his chain messages.

hey, what kind of a person are you? You didn't even "VISIT" my BLOG. You didn't even "explore" what it is. My BLOG and the FB Group were created over a period of 2 years. Many sleepless nights were spent into the making of it.

/Library of Babel/ {in the process of "being built"}
A Digital or Virtual LIBRARY comprising of Free "eBooks" ~ Articles ~ Discussions ~ Posts ~ Links ~ Photos ~ Videos about "AUTEUR" Films ~ FICTION ~ Poetry ~ Arts & Literature ~ Theatre ~ Philosophy ~ Psychology ~ Music ~ Science ~ Culture etc.

More than 500 eBooks (Classics & Contemporary) are uploaded there. Anybody could download them totally FREE. Till now, more than 1,200 "Downloads" had been done. And many "distinguished"/ Notable people "praised" me for this "Herculean Task". No "notifications" are being sent from my BLOG. If anybody is interested, they have to come there. If you are a person without any "Liteary Background/ Interests", that's not my fault. You could have kept "mum", rather than sending that "sarcastic" message.

As for notifications and SPAM, Your REPETITIVE IMAGES of the same style/ nature/ content and your "gibberish" poems are really SPAM. Also, you are not a "PHOTOGRAPHER". You are just a "Propagandist". You always tell about "Street Photography", as if you are the Master of it. Have you ever seen the Photographs of the Masters - Henri Cartier-Bresson etc. And, what "positive" results have been born out of your SPAM IMAGES & POEMS? Kalki Subramaniam is working hard, all over India, with a systematic and proper "Agenda". And, many "positive" and "productive" results have been born out of it. But, what about you? Just Clicking, Clicking, Clicking... Just an UTTER WASTE. "Give Respect, and take Respect". Humility, my friend, is a "Virtue".

Sorry, I can no more "accommodate" you in my friends' list. And also, I have to CLEAR my page from your SPAM.

I 'am disconnecting you, BYE.

I mean who cares a flying fuck what you do or how you do and this is Facebook case of Cyber Bullying seen in a new light...

I have removed my comment box from Facebook too.