Thursday, April 2, 2015

Ajmer The City Of Hope For Beggars ,,,,




And first the Malangs will start out on a long walk from Kaliar Sharif meet the Malangs of Nizamuddin Aulia and as more Malangs join them they will reach the Holy City Of Ajmer Sharif a day before the Urus of Khwajah Garib begins,,

The city will be decked up and as you make your way from the station through the bylanes you will see beggars beggars , vying for your attention , some yelling out in pain , others mute with fire  in their eyes and the blind the lepers the deranged , the dwarfs every type of beggar is here in Ajmer and they have come with hope , they live on the roads , near the mountains there are beggar colonies in makeshift tents ,, they are the chosen ones of the Holy Saint ,, there is a beggar mafia too unseen that brings beggars to this holy city and makes big bucks paying the beggars their daily wages ..

There are con men too posing as beggars and there are crooks stealing purses from the overcrowded lanes leading to the Holy Shrine ,, and despite holding this Fair for years the government of Rajasthan does not know about crowd management , the devotees lying outside the Ajmer Railway station and the Railways have no idea how to control or manage the Surge ,

No effort is made to make the Urus memorable or make it International, the Ajmer Shrine lanes dirty filthy ugly ,,, it saddens me nothing has changed at all.

I become on with the beggars and each one is unique , each carrying the burden of his Cross on his bent shoulders , and beggars are beggars Muslim beggars or Hindu beggars they are one in their Pain.. and the Holy Saint provides ,, there are good humanbeings that feed the beggars give them money clothes and walk away ..and Compassion is the other name of Ajmer Sharif.

And I can talk volumes about the beggars of Ajmer and another lot of beggars with open wounds , at Taragadh, beggars that have pored hot oil on their wounds to fester them the more pain the more money .. newborn kids lying in the sun on a mat begging unaware that from the mothers womb they have entered Hell on Earth.

So my Muslim Beggars is a set of Pain and Suffering and some Deliverance

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