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It was repaired in the evening ,and for 5 days and nights , the people who jay walk , with their phones stuck to their ears fell inside .. my building watchman told me 3 people fell in the night , before it was repaired and a BMW tyre got stuck in the open sewer ,and this was outside our building where our erstwhile MLA Advocate Ashish Shelar stays ,,need I say further .. but I must add when the common man suffers there is no one to come to his aid at all.
And Bandra Bazar road is a total mess chaos because of the Bandra Municipality and our Congress corporator who has no time to make life better for us and we have to to bear him for another two years ..I am a disillusioned ex Congress traditional voter I will vote for the Devil but never for the Congress and I am not a run of the mill Muslim , I am street educated and as a photographer the camera honestly showed me the crass all around ,, I am not an activist, I am not a part of any ALM group , I am not part of any political party I have no evil agenda ..at the age of 62 as a senior citizen I feel the pain of my dying surroundings ,,
A few days back , I was returning home through the backlanes of Bandra from the Bandra Reclamation transit camps near Gen Kumar Vaidya Marg. and I was shocked to see the guy who sells bangles at De Monte Street and lives in a building close by filling water from a roadside tap..he house ladies carrying the water to drink on their heads and in bottles ,, I asked him what happened , he said their building had no water supply for a week, I did not shoot the picture out of respect as he suffers from Albinism.
Honestly how much can the ordinary man take , 15 years it was the Congress NCP that was in power but they did nothing ,, only colorful brochures of Dengue Free Bandra , lots of talk but no returns .Even the residents in our area have lost their Voice , they seem to live like Zombies , lifeless clueless .. We have no Ms Aftab Siddiqui, or other brave activist like those at Khar and Pali Hill.. vociferous who get the work done ,,Sadly our local newspapers are still eulogizing this lost party trying to bring it back fro political wilderness ,,
Our MP Ms Poonam Mahajan sadly does not have much love for this part of the poor mans Bandra ,, I dont know why I was a great hardcore fan of her father late Mr Pramod Mahajan a great visionary and helper of the poor. I voted for BJP in both the elections so I hope to see some progress some development and a wee bit of Acche Din. I dont know about Sab Ka Sath Sab Ka Vikas ,, I am still confused like the beggars I shoot , the homeless , the hopeless .
And this is my first blog of the day I am posting directly at Facebook.. I could never use my Facebook copy pasting GIFS and other peoples pictures I believe in Original Content , simple pictures .. that tell the story of the dying spirit of Man.
My pictures are not fine Art , nor panoramic landscapes , I have no landscape in Bandra Bazar to shoot , running rivers overflowing streams I will shoot when my gutters start overflowing with gurgling filth..I certainly wont rush to Worli Seaface or Marine Drive to shoot lusty youth and women cavorting their non libidinous bodies in the rains ,,
But yes I will shoot the blind beggar wet to the bones shivering and give him money and an umbrella , I will be buying a whole lot from Chor Bazar and distributing it to them , and old sarees for the Hijras who beg at Pali Road junction all of them my friends ,, wellwishers , ,,
So this is life I had a very hectic day last evening , the Jeans washing for a client of mine was done and the guys who did it did not ask a cent from me I had given Rs 500 as advance they returned that back to me only because they love my friend Anil Hirani who had sent me to them..Anil Hirani was owner of Nostradamus Bandra Hill Road.
This is the other side of Love and Hope in Mumbai. I now will move my ass to walk my 8 KM At MET grounds Bandra ..
The video of the beggar I shot at Kurla overbridge ,, was the saddest story I shot the old Muslim beggar told me if God helped him he would give up begging forever , his house is mortgaged in MP , and that he will never ever come back to Mumbai..
I wondered where would I go if I left Mumbai.. ..not the wilds or Mountains of India ,, 62 years spent in Mumbai I have yet to see Snow ,,, lol.
Happy Morning ,,,to all you early birds ,,if you want to walk with me give me a Buzz ,, entertained by Col Sahbiz Singh Judge his encounter stories, Prakash Gadiya who distributes Rs 10 to the MET watchmen , Mr Milind Pitle Santosh Singh and Subhash Singh , his story I will tell you some other time ,,
But I must mention about Mr Pawar who coaches kids adults at MET Badminton Courts , he is well known in Bollywood circles , and his godfather he tells me is Mr Mohan Kumar Sab,, father of my friends Rohit Kumar And Gautam Kumar .
He respects me a lot , and inquires about my health ..there is a child prodigy he teaches a Chedda boy who plays with the adults ,, I will interview him one day.. both father and son play at the courts and a Marathi family in advertising , they play for long hours here , they come from Ville Parle ,,
There are lots of stories but I must move now ..
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