Thursday, September 19, 2013
Devo Atithi Bhava -Parel Cha Raja Lalbagh Visarjan 2013
Devo Atithi Bhava -Parel Cha Raja Lalbagh Visarjan 2013, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
This is my last uploads of Ganesh visarjan all shot from the Shiv Sena stand Lalbagh , thanks to Shyam Kabre my photographer friend who made it possible , his hospitality every time I met him at Lalbagh is a chapter out Devo Atithi Bhava .. guest is God.
This is a typically love endearing Maharashtrian quality and is found graciously in Amchi Mumbai.. he knew I have diabetes , I tire easily he introduced me to the Shaka Pramukhs , and gave me a chair to sit , offered me a cold drink too..and saw nobody came in my way while shooting pictures ,,,
Later after the shoot he took me to a restaurant offered me tea and kept saying that he was missing his best friend mentor Mr Datta Sawant now in UK on a holiday.
Shooting The Million Moods Of Lalbagh Chya Raja
Shooting The Million Moods Of Lalbagh Chya Raja, a photo by firoze shakir photographerno1 on Flickr.
Thanks to Venus security , there was not much overcrowded moments within the pandal, their lady boss and their boys and girls kept the crowds in good control..I think they did a tremendously good job at the pandal on Visarjan day , the moment Raja moves from the Pandal to the gates outside .. I was lucky enough to trail behind him comfortably , once I reached outside I was swamped mercy of the crowds ..and I salute those brave hearts who wait for hours to get the shot of the Raja at the gates .
But I preferred to shoot the Arti and the Raja , perhaps I was compensating for missing the Press Darshan on the 6 th ,, I reached after the gates had shut... two years in a row. Last year I was caught up shooting Lewis Hamilton at Kurla and reached late for the Press inauguration of Raja.
Anil Kapre their in house photographer helped me get a few good shots and so did Sumit Kale too.. Sumit gave me a buch of coconuts as prasad for my friends , and it was this extra weight in my bag that made me more difficult to move.
While leaving I shot the Raja from the Shiv Sena stand and Shyam Kabre made it possible I still have to upload those pictures .. I have been uploading ths lot till 3am.
Shyam Kabre is a wedding event photographer from Lalbagh and a friend of my friend Datta Sawant now on a holiday in England. Shyam took me to the only restaurant at Lalbagh open on Visarjan day I had a cup of tea , than decided to walk the bridge to Parel but after walking some distance gave up as the gravel was hurting my barefeet .. I walked back to Lalbagh and finally got a cab at Parel junction near the Ganesha workshops ..I got off at Sion took a ricksha to Bandra tired pooped . after buying bloodworms for Marziyas fish tank walked back home.
Nerjis has just got up and watching my Lalbagh visarjan pictures,,,,I bought Lalbagh Chya raja caps for all my 3 grand daughters ,, gift from Sumit Kale and his dad ..
Nange Pair ,, Diya Pani Piya Zehar
sukhi naher
gardish ka alam
bhooki laher
muflisi ka manzar
aye waqt thoda
taher ,, yadein
aur unka qaher
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barefeet
carrying
the crucifix
of his woes
a pain
nurtured
without
water
like a
thorny
cactus
it grows
blooming
once in
lifetime
the beggar
poet does
not know
pictures as
poems he
froze she
violently
on his face
shut her
destinys
doors
sometimes
you ask
for less
you end
up getting
more fetid
bodily sores
fate washed
away like
a troubled
pebble on
a devastated
seashore
life solicits
on the streets
like a whore
to score or
not to score
bleeding core
rusty spirits
corroded ore
no not anymore
she spat and swore
i hate love stories
that end as folklore
all this pain
this suffering
what for
he whimpered
she sarcastically
laughed some more
holistically unhealing
unappealing tigress s
last stand and roar
Lalbagh Chya Raja Visarjan 2013
Ganesh Kini "The act of Visarjan teaches you to let go of something you love deeply and have nurtured so long.
Visarjan teaches you to surrender to faith over intellect."
It teaches us what we love we may have to leave so love unconditionally!!!
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