Our representatives that we voted to power locally never really did much for this area an extension of Bandra Bazar Road ..This area is a gaothan , once a fishing village owing its ancestry to the earliest inhabitants of Bandra .. The East Indians .And as this area once belonged to the Portuguese it has its remains at a cornerstone a few blocks away from this place ,, it is a grotto and Novena is held every Wednesday.
I stayed in De Monte Street for some years , and I still pass by my old house and remember it fondly , I meet Mrs Gonsalves even now, a widow her daughters settled in Canada , her son died tragically.. This are was marked with cottages and fruit bearing trees under the pretext of repairing and in collusion with builder politician municipal rogues , the entire cottage would be pulled down and inits place ugly monstrous buildings hurriedly instructed on iron channels came up first was ground plus one , than surreptitiously it became ground plus two..
And when the rains came the building badly built wept , water seeping in all the rooms and disaster for those living on th first and second floor westerly flats..
We left it despte the fact there were no buyers for this kind of utility , my wife sold it for peanuts and today the same place costs a fortune , and at unimaginable rates..
This was my first house in Bandra after living on rent everywhere during the riots and this was bought after we managed to sell our pagree house at Danpada Khar Danda after going through the 93 riots and its after effects on our lives specially the children.. and all this mayhem under Congress rule .there are deep wounds but we have left them behind .
There are a lot of beggars on this stretch , yesterday I saw a new girl sitting tat Boran Road , and two old faces . There is another burkha clad lady she sits where the leper lady Maria used to sit.
Jaffar Bhai and the other Old beggar I shoot have disappeared too.
However there is a lady from good house she walks with a stick , she was a BJP supporter , but now she begs outside Globus .. and a wheelchair beggar with a mobile phone he too stays at Bandra Bazar Road begs at the same place .
Ever since my grandkids went on a holiday I hardly move out with my DSLR ..I shot the Marriammen cheek piercing feast both at Nehru Nagar and Madraswadi .. that was the only time I used my Canon D60.
Now each time I go out I shoot pictures on my Motorola G.. a big change , but I still get the big picture and better results , the DSLR is a frontal attack the Motorola G is unobtrusive so to speak.
It has rained this morning , and it will be a break from hot humid weather , I keep shaving my head unable to bear the heat and humidity.
As I am a diabetic it gets worse for me , I change my Tee every time I come home , bather 4 times a day.
Yesterday I went for my eye check up, at Holy Family Hospital a very long wait , and when Dr Anil Dudani eye specialist saw my eyes he said my cataract was under control and I had to keep my diabetes in control too.
The ayurvedic l medicine Neeri I have been taking since 3 weeks for my gallbladder stones... drinking barley water every night .. there is a Koranic verse dua that my wife recites before making me drink the barley water.
And Zinnia Fatima my third grand child came home last night from her vacations gave ma big hug..
