Shooting The Soul of The Children In The Slums, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.
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The Bandra slum kids look normal ordinary usually but if you see them on feast days Like Ramzan or Bakra Eid they are gaudily dressed , the girls look like the mothers with a sackful of talcum powder on their face and smudged lipstick glittering lame gowns and a purse to collect eidi from relatives , the little boys in readymade suits and sherwanis depending on their dads income.
Wedding times are joyous moments with hijras dancing the daily squabbles are forgotten everyone has a great time..but the kids and the women love political rallies during election time and if Salman Khan is part of the cavalcade it is rip roaring moment, he is the favorite of the slum people , a popularity no Bollywood actor has in slum lands of Bandra West.
Shooting the slums is fine on the whole it is bitter and distressing when natural calamity strikes like the one at Garib Nagar...the most dreaded moments in slums are fires and heavy rains ...and the builder lobby would love to have control of the slums the fastest way to big bucks and prosperity.
And I must add here fires in slums are unsolved mysteries everyone knows who has done it but none have the balls to spell out the truth,,, the file will be closed anyway..more important than the survival of the slums is the survival of the government both at state level and center...luckily this is not a political blog..
