The Bhajiwali Bai and Her Grandchild

The Bhajiwali Bai and Her Grandchild, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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She is pucca Maharashtrian and for ages selling vegetables at the Bandra Bazar Market , from one generation to the next, as I have a grand daughter too , I would wish her well , that she gets too study and rise above head and shoulders of her grand mother.

Now selling vegetables is their family trade , and it passes on but at the same time education too is important and here the focus is on the future of the grand child , and this is the duty and obligation of the state and the society she lives in.

Most of the girls in their community even after marriage sell vegetables going from home to home and have their regular customers..

I shoot their pictures to show your their lifestyle , their continue struggle to rise above all, and unfortunately as the prices of real estate in Bandra have shot up so most of these people living in joint families will sell their properties to land shark and move northwards or go back to their home towns.

Most of these families live in Bandra gaothans back lanes eyed by the politician builder nexus as lucrative offering to build towers on the shanties where they live..Bandra has changed over the years and I document this change through my street pictures.