Merry Xmas From Maria The Leper Lady of Bandra

Merry Xmas From Maria The Leper Lady of Bandra, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.

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Maria does not trust anyone her beggar tin box is held to a string, and within the tin is another tin , once she hears the clink of a coin , she empties it into another tin.. because drug addicts that haunt Bandra make away with her earnings .. even small fish eat big fish..

I had told Maria that Dr Glenn Losack MD was going to visit India .. and would drop in to see her but the day he arrived in Mumbai she was at her home town.

Her daughter Mary is a street beggar too..but with her earnings as a beggar she has given both her grand child good schooling and a better life..she has carved a path a bright future though she herself has empty sockets for eyes .

She knows my voice and I always give her substantial money..and she sits at Bandra Boran road in the mornings the road that leads to Bandra Bazar Road.

In the evenings she sits near Globus or the Tata Parsi Agiary Fire Temple.

And Marziya Shakir my 4 year old grand daughter has shot her too..but one person Marziya would love to shoot is Appu my limbless friend but he has disappeared from the face of the earth..