Kids Collecting Food For The Kurbani Goats

Kids Collecting Food For The Kurbani Goats, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Once the goats are bought home they are fed with sumptuous delicacies , these kids asked the watchman to break pomegranate leaves for their goats.

The goats are given chapattis , ready made goat meal sold all around Bandra during Bakra Idd.

The goats are given water and in front of most of the hoses in the nearby slums you will find one or two goats tied close-by.

Kurbani goes on for three days Of Bakra Idd and most of the time you will hardly get a butcher for slaughtering te goats as most of them are booked in advance by large Muslim housing societies

At JJ Colony where butcher knives and the slaughter logs are sold , even a person without knowledge of goat slaughter becomes a butcher to make a fat buck.

The slaughter charges vary from person to person area to area and based on the size of the goat.

Nothing less than Rs 350 to begin with , going up to Rs 800.

The bulls are slaughtered too by a group of people who cant afford individual goats..this is a tough item on the slaughter agenda to shoot as the butchers take offense and dont like pictures being taken.


Very wealth traders businessmen slaughter camels to in Mumbai.

Most of the cattle and goats come from Rajasthan and neighboring areas , at the moment the rates are very high both in Bandra and in Deonar I am told...


The skins of the slaughtered animals are given to the mosque or religious institutions as donations.


The poor throng the sites where the animals are slaughtered begging for left overs of the meat etc.

Even the beggar eunuch community comes out in large numbers to beg for meat..