Firstly there would be no cases of Arabic male teachers raping 5 year girls for sure ,, I mean surely the beggar mother could be trained and be deputed to madrsas where girls are taught Arabic.. Most of the Muslim poor women do know the Holy Koran and this would be better than begging like this mother carrying her child seeking alms on the streets of Ajmer during the Urus .
There should be ways by the Ulemmas to rehabilitate these women teach them some profession , cooking stitching , and the rich among the Muslims should donate sponsor such projects , what is needed is a change in thinking but than Muslim society at times can be so anti Women that I hardly see hope.. I am shocked seeing parents begging along with their daughters and in this regard the Kashmiri beggar migrants will be found begging with their grown up daughters in Bandra or Mahim.
I am merely a photographer I document the pain of the poor segments of Muslim society ,instead of money one could buy them ration , clothes or even pay of their children s school fees and during Bakra Eid the rich Miuslim forgets all this spending extravagantly buying fancy goats dumbas camel and he could be less showy more practical , give a goat to a widows home or to an orphanage .
And it saddens me , and this beggar mother carrying the heavy load her son and pleading for money ..and there are professional beggars too, there entire livelihood depends on begging as a lucrative profession..and there are some the very poor naive who get caught in the clutches of the beggar mafia..and thus enslaved are sent to various pilgrimage spots to beg..
I have however concentrated on Muslim beggars and documented them all over India places I visited during Moharam , Urus ..Now Muslim beggars also beg at Hindu temples and Hindu feast days begging has no religion but several God to appease .
I knew a Muslim lady with kids , her husband used to hide at a distance and she begged outside the Tata Agiary at Bandra Hill Road .
There are Muslim men who marry blind disabled crippled woman and make them beg , they maybe beggars themselves and there is a Muslim blind man with a blind wife who beg at Pydhonie while their children with sight play close by ,.
The most heartbreaking was an old couple at Hussain Tekri Jaorah both in their late seventies and the wife on a wheelchair being lugged by the husband begging at Hussain Tekri.
I have a lot of beggar stories , stories within stories ..I meet beggar kids I shot now they have children of their own begging on the roads.
We ban beef we ban this we ban that but we I mean the government talks about Swach Bharat and Sab Ka Sath Sab Ka Vikas hollow words and we cant remove Poverty Beggary ,,just glib talk.. we protect the cows and our women children raped on the streets ,, and move away from core issues like farmer suicides forced conversions desecrating of our holy places by anti social elements ,,
And this is a beggar blog .. a picture that in silence could evoke a thousand words of pain.. motherhood begs ,,on two tired legs .
