Being on Facebook does not pay

A regressive platform
the poetry of my heart says
for posting a picture of a madman
lying nude on the street no frontal
nudity no sexual implications no
perversion I a man who does not
post Porn was banned for 3 days
I contested the ban but they showed
me no grace I have decided to move
out of Facebook.. give up the chase
only Flickr and Twitter as my base
almost 10 years at Facebook..
as a photographer are street poet
a story teller my humility attacked
instead of praise..
dear Mr Marc Zuckerberg..
it was not like this always..
I followed Facebook terms
your rules of the book
I embraced.

But I have decided to retreat from FB
without any trace..

Good bye my Facebook friends fans
followers..

My Facebook page..
I finally stand erased
embalmed in oblivion
as I present my pain
my remorse my angst
unfortunate case

Thanking you all for
mentoring me guiding me
helping me I have no other
phrase.. soul made of iron
but humans feet made of clay.

Last Message To Me From Late Jeff Lamb on Facebook

photo courtesy Leyla Lau Lamb

I shut my Facebook a few days back every time I use FB and I use it more as a street photographer and as a street poet , my posts would  end up hurting some bigots sense and sensibility simply that he does not like the rituals culture or spiritual ideology I post of the diverse religions of India  so having added me as a friend he turns vile ,,I block him but than I get hurt  so I move out of Facebook.

I have deactivated Facebook many times I have lost count but I come back as I have some very beautiful friends ..some are friends from Flickr .

One of them was late Mr Jeff Lamb..how we met on Flickr I still dont remember but for me after Bandra where I live my next stop part of my fecund imagination became Ann Arbor thanks to Jeff through Jeff I met other friends of Jeff highly gifted prolific photographers and camera enthusiasts almost camera demi gods like Marc Akeman .

Now as a photographer I have been a late learner no formal training in photography but I shot what God told me to shoot and I came to photography to give up my deoendence on alcohol the mind doctor told my wife I needed another powerful intoxication it almost made me broke ..photography .

I shot film mostly Ilford Delta 100 ASA Velvia 50 Provia ..and Fuji color I did not much care for Kodak Triax ..or their color range .

There was no method to my madness in photography I shot 40 rolls color slides BW  of a Shia Event Ashura perched on a gate with just one camera .

So what I am trying to put across is I was not the kind of photographer that Jeff had as companions I was point shoot DSLR addict my Mantra was Fuck Fstops break rules and fuck all pedantic pompous old Renaissance masters that was shoved both up my throat and my rectum by camera club slave masters .

I enjoyed Jeffs pictures the vastness the expanse and the light shadows and silhouettes his lingering love for life his surroundings his friends ..all encompassed my cosmic ever learning mind .

He would send me mail comment favorite my pictures but most of all he loved my 3 year old photo shooting granddaughter Marziya Shakir and he was touched by her love of Lucky the Labrador ..

I knew nothing about Jeffs life his wife or whether he had children ours was photographic platonic relationship the camera added fodder to  our thoughts .

I am not much of a writer I write with my camera and my words are limited to poetry ..but some episodes in life make me voluble voracious and garrulous .

When I was shutting my FB I thought of shutting FB Messenger too but curiously went though the thread of old messages and found one of Jeff Lamb he wrote to me

""somehow i miss your face book posts on my fb home page, but i do check in, here or on the flickr. and am always glad to see your work and the place that you live. best to you
reminds me that photography is love. thnks
jl""

Last message to me on FB from Jeff

I sent this to Marc Akeman and to Leyla Lau Lamb it made them nostalgic and it touched Leyla I told her I wanted to write a few lines but did not have Jeffs pictures she was kind and sent quite a few which will bring joy to lovers of Jeffs personality and photography .

So dont ever assume that photography is only about picture taking or picture sharing it is our connection with life death and after life.. it is a medium invoking the spirit on the Ouija board it is about mysticism it is about unknown territories that our mind adventurously captures .

I wish Flickr had a way to add all pictures of Jeff sent by Leyla on this single page but than it would pose as a blog and the greatest insult to the soul of photography according to me is blogging..

I am everything a photographer an arsehole even a dickhead but I am not a blogger .

I died as a blogger I OD ed on my Blogs .

Goodnight
Jeff lives on Flickr

Jeff

JeffLeyla

The Mountain shook I rejoined Facebook

This was a blank post at Flickr that found its place in Explore and has generated 4468 views shot on 19 Sept 2017 .

Sometimes you shoot a picture that is a poem devoid of words words have a tendency of stilting the true interpretation of ones creativity ,,my poetry slam or street poetry is mere juggling of words pushing them in blank spaces .

This is a poem that came out of the blue .

Sodom and Gomorrah
poetically posturing
as Twitter Facebook
hate is more powerful
than love everywhere
you look earlier my
naivety forum of peace
Facebook I accidentally
mistook i shut shop for
one and half years Flickr
remained my most comforting
friendly nook...photography
is storytelling photos become
nostalgic storybook
fishes swishing past
pebbles in a brook...shooting pain
remorse dreams cavorting with misery
mans fate his struggle survival from
his cosmic destination cannot be
unhooked ..
a thought that needs to be seriously pondered
life begins as a blank sketch book..
i live i die held in captivity of my karma dharma
faults failures shortcomings overlooked

this was a blank post i added my poetic angst
letter by letter a task my inner self undertook


The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Oh Rumi my Master My Teacher My Only Text Book


Facebook

Religious Tonsure Documenting Street Barbers of India

When or why I started shooting street barbers I dont recollect but Barberism Barbers Religious Tonsure Mundan is a prolific documentary shot by me housed at Flickr .

But there is a incident that pushed me into shooting Religious Tonsure I met a young couple from Andhra they were deeply in love and their parents were not happy they went through hell they came to Haji Malang invoke the Holy Saint if their marriage happened they would give their hair as their homage and the Saint answered their prayers so instead of going for a Honeymoon they came to a street salon and were having their heads shaved I was not into videos those early days so I shot their pictures , the lady was very beautiful and I saw her evolving in front of my eyes as her strands fell at my feet,,both were in spiritual bliss both staunch Hindus .

The guy told me his Love story and today after almost 10 years I am absolving myself for having kept it close to my heart..so I began shooting barbers my granddaughters Marziya Nerjis Mundan Akika .

I shot several street barber stories I shot faceless Billu Badshahs ..I shot barbers in Lucknow Hyderabad Delhi Latur ..it was not a obsession but I wanted to tell their stories and barbers have Shifa holistic healing hands hey touch and bless you ..

I shot barbers on the banks of Ganges Allahabad Maha Kumbh Nasikh Kumbh Ujjain Kumbh.

But the guys that really contributed to my barber documentary were the street barbers of Lal Mitti Bandra Reclamation ..Hindu guys from UP and Jharkhand .

Mostly the street barbers or even barbers runnning street stalls are Muslims most come from Badayoun..and other north Indian cities .

I was close to a Kashmiri barber too,

But Pitru Paksha pushed me completely into shooting street barbers as here on on this auspicious day I could shoot hordes of barbers at Banganga that became a Planet of Bald Heads .

I have been shooting the street barbers on Pitru Paksha for several years I must be the only photographer shooting them barefeet ,..but it was the first time I shot them in the rains and there used to be a few Muslim barbers from Bandra that joined this bandwagon but I did not see them.

As my thread of life that goes beyond just poetry passion and pathos it is bound to Hindu Muslim amity at all costs this is the essence core of my photography and its Indianness ..

Similarly I shot the Muslim kite makers all Muslim that makes kites and Hindus joyously fly them in Mumbai during Makar Sankranti.

There are a lot of stories waiting to be shot all you need is a mobile phone and effort to tell it through your narrative ,,,I think what is essential and fuck blogging is Original Content I would smash my camera move out of picture taking if I had to copy paste another mans picture or his story and I think Facebook LIKE and Twitter FAVORITE s so degenerating fucking juvenile .

But more than Flickr it was Twitter that contributed to my fragmented creativity I had locked up Facebook for personal reasons and the entire Chadiyan my walking trip with the Malangs from Delhi to Ajmer 550 km in 13 days I documented via Twitter .

So though I have taken a sabbatical and also sent a direct message to Mr Jack Dorsey about Twitter a forum of peace I joined in 2008 inspired by Biz Stone the guy who baptized me as a Blogger has now become diabolically a House of Hate .

I have 230000 tweets all photo related.

I moved out of all Blogging forums ,,it is just Flickr You Tube Blogspot ...Blogspot is my graveyard of over 5 blogs ,,,

Th only way of becoming a good photographer is shooting pictures as stories ,, pictures as pictures is is the distance from asshole to eternity ..

Merci

Flickr

I enter the Big Boss House Facebook ..

I had deactivated my FB account since a year and a half but there was need to connect with a few friends as I was planning to shoot Moharam Ashura either in Bangalore or Chennai .

I finally decided to go and shoot Chennai I have shot it once besides I have some very good friends and the Chennai Shias are very loving people very hospitable..I have a very dear friend who will let me stay in a room at his house .

I have shot Ashura Moharam in Lucknow and Hyderabad for many years I wanted to have a different feel and locale .

I shall leave in 26 September and return on 4 October .

I get tired of social media I type with one finger of a damaged right hand and can hardly manage my 2000 friend list at Facebook besides I delete all friend a request unless person is known to me I don't add strangers ..
As you are aware I have taken a break a very long sabbatical from Twitter ..

In a few minutes shall get ready to go play tennis my only physical training regimen I stopped walking due to the heavy rains in Mumbai .
I hate raincoat lol

Its been a year since I left Facebook

a long
very long
sabbatical
i took
most of
my time
spent on
Twitter
pimping
my photography
online coffee table
book .. my corner
of 140 words my
homily nook
maybe it was
the woman who
loved me on
Facebook
had me complexly
hooked ever since
she left me i changed
my sartorial outlook
luckily i am just a
visual storyteller
not a media crook
Twitter my watering
hole my brook

Happy New Year I Have Finally Deactivated My Facebook Account

I have been blocked for 24 hours without a reason I dont post porn I dont intimidate people I follow Facebook rules and conditions ,,I promote facebook..so I have decided to move away if you follow such rules of blocking I do not wish to be part of Facebook family .. Thanks a lot .. God bless you all with good common sense .

Happy Morning The Heart Speaks Out

posted at facebook

Those of you who met me last evening at the GSB Seva Mandal and added me here at Facebook .. Thanks ,, I added you in return as soon as you added me ,,Now I must tell you I shoot a storyboard all my pictures of the GSB Seva Mandal 2015 can be seen at Flickr where all my blogs originate I am basically a blogger ,, and have been documenting Lord GSB his family of followers loved ones for many years now...
I post a few images here at Facebook.. but I cant post all of them I shot almost 16 GB.. I have no method to shooting pictures I shoot impulsively cosmically and I shoot till something within my system tells me to stop.. I dont shoot for commercial gain or profit , photography is not and has never been my primary or secondary source of income ,,I shoot pictures like a habitual offender this is my high.. my Nasha and my Utara ,,
I dont delete my pictures I think there was some reason for shooting a bad picture too ,,and so you must see my shortcomings as a so called posturing street photographer , for me the world I shoot is a street ,,and I am cosmically part of it ,, I am now uploading my GSB pictures at Flickr ,, It takes me time as I had to make space transfer my Nasikh Kumbh pictures others to an external hard drive ,,
After I shot Lalbagh Chya Raja first day first show , Ganesh Gully and Tejukaya ,, this is my next lot all part of my 66000 Hindu blogs ,,. Hope and Hindutva a Message of Universal Peace ..and honestly sincerely I would not be what I am a good human being with some flaws without my steadfast Hindu friends ..they added a beautiful dimension to my life they added the cosmic beauty of their faith..on the poetry of my soul..
Hinduism for some is Religion for me as a Shia Muslim it is a path a destination a Way Of Life ,, Its about Sanskar Sanskriti its about culture upbringing and Adab Tehzeeb... and is my cultural inheritance as much as yours I shoot Hinduism as passionately as I shoot the blood flowing from the head of a man who cuts his head to the chant of Ya Hussain Ya Hussain..
“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

Hooked

I am on Flickr since 2007 I am following 2000 people and I have 1800 followers , I am blocking over 1500 people ,,for no fault of theirs they have fetish for porn..and I cannot add them I mean I understand artistic nudes but hardcore porn is beyond me ,, than I block those who add me with fake names and no profile photo ..I have had some great friends very old friends and they got out of hand using me as a punching bag because of their fucked dried up sex lives or whatever megalomania I blocked them too..

There was a person a typical Bengali shooting landscapes a part poet and he got upset seeing Naga cocks on my Kumbh pictures and got nasty in his comments I dumped him too.. I mean I dont understand when you add me you take me with the baggage of my quirks idiosyncrasies ,,I dont demolish a persons character because of the pictures he shoots ,,you want to see some of my images but are not happy with the the cultural ritualistic bloodletting scenes I shoot beats me ,, Fuck dont you read a persons profile glance his photostream.. before adding him and I am saying this to a Flickr member ,,

A lot of people add me first I check the profile ,it maybe very tame flowers or a single picture and his favorites will be a rhapsody of genitalia I block him..I block all transgender , hijras others not that I have any issue with them most of the stuff on their timelines is gross even as nudes ,, I am not interested in you silicon boobs or your negligee pictures ,,and you going down on anything with two legs or four legs ,,

I am not interested in your religious profile ,,it hardly bothers me ,, but dont dump it on me I am not interested ,, and initially I took a lot of rap for my Shia pictures , I was abused called foul names but than I am happy being a Shia I am not interested in your pristine Islam that kills more Muslims than God kills accidentally or naturally.

This is my soliloquy it is not addressed to you..its my voice trying to come out from a trapped moment in time ,,

I have an average of 35000 views everyday on my images and despite the fact that the biggest views once upon a time were on my Hijra pictures , the crossdressers and the Mumbai Pride ,, I locked it all up threw the key away. Now I shoot all this as a documentary not for titillation or voyeuristic reasons ,,There are people at Flickr who add me certainly not for my beggar pictures or my shit garbage .. and I add them back though I dont shoot will never shoot what they shoot ..
I type with one finger of a permanently damaged hand but I make it a point to scroll those on my contact list.. friends only at Flickr I favorite pictures I comment on pictures ,,

Here I hope you all will forgive me I have a very few people whom I know thoroughly well on my Facebook Feed I cant go through 2000 peoples list and out of the 2000 very few are photographers ,,and I am here as a photographer ..but a photographer who is a hardcore blogger ,,and my text book of photography is my Flickr feed .. I learn get inspired from the diverse works of my friends ,, I have some great photographer friends .. some old dear friends from Buzznet ,, but two people I really am influenced by at Flickr are Eric Parker we connected because of my Chor Bazar pictures in 2007 and the most stylish impeccable street photographer Akbar Simonse from Amsterdam .

I mean I would kill myself if I had to shoot the camera club kind of shit that they preachify through their brochures and newsletters I dont want to be another KG Maheshwari ,, I want my own intrinsic style and pictorial thought ,,I am changing with the times ,, I started shooting stills as moving pictures storyboard because I was inspired by this Chinese guy shooting 500 tea drinkers and he continues .. 

I am not a photography teacher I shoot as I talk as I breathe .. it all comes from inside and as I am a loner in the crowd I taught my grandkids not to shoot photography like other photographers shoot no Fuck F Stops no text book,.. I taught them the only thing right hold the camera like you hold a slippery fish in your hand pictures will take care of themselves and than I realized the only granddaughter I never taught anything Zinnia Fatima 3 year old can shoot pictures as good as Nerjis and Marziya.

And I am blogging this at Facebook.. thoughts coming out from a clockwork orange .. If I stop photography , stop shooting pictures I will be stilll producing pictures and thoughts by tweaking images from my Flickr archives 350000 of mindless thoughts posing as visuals ,, And I almost puke every morning when I see the DNA paper and few other papers .. I need not say anything sometimes the pictures in the papers cant even speak a single word.. 

We in all humility have been influenced by the pictures we saw in newspapers now it is full of crap.. barring a few ..and I demystified the way I saw my world through the camera I trained my grandkids by letting them shoot garbage ,, and now they even see God clearly ,, even if it is at Mount Marys church,. or the Ganesha pandas that Nerjis will shoot in a day or too.. 
I would go berserk posting GIFS ,, and other shit that I see here on Facebook what beats me you could be as creative with your mobile phone ,, 

if you only put your heart to it ,, 

Now I will search for a picture to add fuel to fire 

Hooked yes ,, blog line and sinker

Humble Request Please Dont Tag Me At Facebook

posted at facebook

I still dont understand why people Tag me in their posts ,,your passion for religious posts is understandable but including me does not inspire me with your passion , unlike you I dont post GIFs ..I dont understand why you tag me in your political posts I am neither a Congress Crony nor a BJP bhakt ,, I stay million miles away from politics,, You do charity , you do great service at your Dargah very fine but why are you pushing it on my timeline ..I am not interested at all.
I post original content unlike some of you who post any shit at the drop of a hat I dont search for fishes to comment on my posts ..
I do not wish to be included in the list of your friends you tag,, if there is anything I hate on Facebook is tagging ,,I dont tag your ass with my street shots ..I also keep reminding people who add me and I add some back to remove me from their feeds .
I hardly comment on peoples post , I do not ever use the Marc Zuckeburg money making Like button.. I comment ,,I have many friends I type with one finger bu I have very few friends on my feed ,, my oldest friends and those whom I know personally ,, I delete friend requests of people I dont know , but if there is a common friend I add him without seeing his profile , I prefer to add photogrphers , lovers of fine art and people who love Humanity ,, My Facebook timeline is not a Mosque or a Dargah or even Shrine , I post religious pictures as an Indian who documents all diverse faith belief rituals culture .. I am a Shia Muslim but that is only one part of me that has nothing to do with me being a street photographer and dabbling in citizen journalism.
I dont provoke you because you are a Sunni or a Hindu or a Christian.. I dont ridicule your customs I dont even proselytize my faith but if I do post pictures of my bleeding head it is to show you that I bleed inside too when Muslims kill Muslims in the name Of Allah and Neo Islam..
I dont know why we bring our offline hate bias bigotry on our Facebook timeline , than I realize it is all because of our lack of upbringing our lousy parentage I was lucky my parents were kind and bequeathed this love for all be it a Hindu or any other religiosity ,, I take my walks with a Shaka Pramukh hardcore Hindu and we get along very well , Someone asked me how could I walk with him.. I told him we dont discuss our religion at all, he likes me because once my granddaughter shot his picture and both my granddaughters shoot his Ganpati Pandals , so you need two hands to clap and more than that he respects me that I followed Hon Shree Balasahebs funeral cortege from Bandra to Shivaji Park.. to shoot showcase pictures for others who sadly missed to be there .
I use Facebook as a blog platform I wish Facebook was 140 words than I could have summed all this up in a single tweet.
So please dont tag me ,, I have also removed people from my friends list and blocked them too ..You have something to show me tell me than use the Facebook inbox.. I will reply immediately ..
Now I will hunt for a picture from my Flickr Archive to make this update a photo blog .. And I am happy a million times I am not just a photographer ,, or a blank verse updater at Facebook

I Delete a Lot Of Friends Request..

I am also happy that a lot of people delete me after adding me ,, I delete requests from young girls ..I dont know and dont wish to know , I delete requests from young kids I see their profile and they are on Facebook to promote their Religion as a cult I am not interested..I delete friends who unnecessarily tag me on their religious posts ..what are you trying to prove . that your tagging will make me as superfluously religious like you I am not interested ,,

I am added by people because I am a Shia , fine I add them back but than they get a bit heavy for me my Shiasm is not to attack anyone if someone does provoke or ridicules my customs beliefs I block him.

I am added by people as I promote the Peace Hope and Harmony of Sufism.. I am a Malang but those are my personal attributes ..My Sufism as a Malang is my path not my Destination .. I know my Destination..

So I am confused at times .. earlier the hijras transgender others added me as I was documenting the Hijra Ethos of India , but than I realized most of them were only adding me for the sexual aspect of the Hijras .. I began deleting those people and I have only the few serious ones I honor respect ,, I disabled my entire Hijra documentary of 20000 images from public view ,, Indians are not ready to understand the pain of this ethnicity .. shooting hijras is a fad .. I still shoot them only for myself ,,

I respect shoot all religion faith culture ,it fascinates me ,, so shooting Hinduism is my photo exercise but I would not be able to explain this to a Muslim from a hick town who added me because of me being a Muslim .

A Pakistani Shia will cerainly not understand why I shoot Hinduism it is part of the culture I live in.. so at times it is difficult to explain,, and than there are those who add me and when they see my Moharam pictures they report Abuse ,,So I am really surprised as a 62 year old senior citizen and a harmless one ,, why the fuck do you add me ,,,Why dont you read my profile ,, and I am not making my Facebook timeline into a only Shia site .. I am creating space for all segments ,,You want Shiasm go to Shia platforms dont use my timeline for creating an echo I dont need it ,,

Same with Sufis adherents ,,you do your stuff ,, do it on your timeline why tag me ,,I tag people because I shot their pictures at Ajmer and I cant post the same on Whats Up.. I hardly use Whats or even Instagram.. For me it is Flickr ,, than Ello.

So now you know why I delete certain friend requests ..and this is to simply not let your barbs injure my friends who are are from diverse caste and creed .

All my posts on cyberspace are for public but here on Facebook I mark it only for friends as there are more bigots racists on Facebook than anywhere on other social platforms.

I taught my grandchildren Photography made them shoot all religion , rituals culture Temples Churches ,,,so that what my parents, my photo gurus all Hindus gave me could percolate deep down into their inner angst too.

If I did hurt anyone unintentionally or even intentionally I am sorry..if I deleted or blocked you by mistake.

For Whom The Bells Toll

For Once I Am Lucky That
Ello Does Not Have A Facebook
Wall..No Pokes To Assault ,,No
Notes For Dolts No Likes
Adding More Injury To Wound
With Epsom Salt ,,Yes I Am
Not on Facebook.. Its Marc
Zuckerburgs Fault ,,with money
to last for several generations
in familys Vault ,, this beggar
poet urban brown clown did a
somersault ,,..Control Delete Alt
A Cup of green herbal tea greater
than your MALT ,,, My only Commandment

THOU SHALT
Not Default

After Adding Me On Facebook ,, There Are Those Bigots Who Love To Kick My Ass

This is an old post written in 2012 , and I keep deactivating my Facebook account from time to time to get a free lease on life ,,but I miss some very good friends so I return like a rolling stone .

The only words that have changed in my blog below , i have locked up my hijra documentary from the voyeuristic nature of man..I shoot less pictures  I tweak my old pictures via Aviary ,, but my poets angst is as restless as it wa when life began.. I blog to kill pain ..I dont shoot Moharam in Mumbai I stay away from all Shia congregations I shoot Moharam in cities where love of Imam Hussain is greater than  love for bigotry , I shoot a lot of Hindu rituals but even this I have cut down , I shot the Maha Kumbh 2013 .

My Old Blog


Of late I have been deleting all requests from my community , simply because we may belong to the same community , but I have not come to Facebook to make this as my religious platform, I do post my faith but I dont forcefully push it up peoples throat..I may not be as religious as you are perhaps that is your view you only know a part of me through my pictures .. you want to see Shia pictures Shia blogs Shia ethos please join a Shia platform.

I am on Facebook as an extension of my love for photography and above all sharing my world my surroundings my culture that includes my ancestry as a Muslim and as a Indian above all as Humanity .

Why I shoot what I shoot is none of your business keep you religious edicts your narrowness of thought within your friends your home your elders .. I am not going to be ridiculed insulted humiliated because I shoot what I shoot with my camera .. please read my profile both at Facebook and at Flickr that  will save me from ungraciously blocking and deleting your request .. without a message from you I shall not add you at all.. Period .

Earlier I added people who added me I have stopped , I shoot hijras as a social awareness documentary but it is not part of my sexuality so I dont add anyone who adds me because they are cross dressers or aspiring hijras I am not interested .. you want to change your sex go ahead dont fuck my brains I am not a counselor .

If you post ugly comments on  the people rituals I have shot you are blocked reported deleted .

You want to change me first change yourself I am happy with what my parents taught me I had a very different upbringing than those that add me from the neighboring countries or hick towns even those living in cities with pea sized brains ..

I shoot the seasons of religiosity that affect my city during Ramzan Eid I shoot food lanes the Eid Namaz of the Sunni Mosque at Bandra Staion to show  the universality of Namaz on the streets.. during Bakra Eid I shoot the slaughter of goats sacrifice and also Bakra Eid brings me closer to Moharam another important sacrifice . I shoot Ashura  Chehlum Athvi and 21 Ramzan

I shoot  Good Friday I shoot 14 Stations of the Cross I walk barefeet with the Christians ..I owe this to them because my education is their gift ..I shoot Churches Temples Dargahs.

I shoot the Mahim Urus Makhdhoom Shah Baba and Fakhruddin Shah Baba .. only two Urus in Mumbai I shoot this as a photographer enchanted by Sufi Rafaee Mysticism.

I shoot Haji Malang because I shoot  document this place of pilgrimage a destination point for Hindus Muslims and I shoot the transgender here and their documentary, but my documentary is no more for the PUBLIC.. only people I know who are my friends on Flickr.. you just dont become my friend by adding me kicking my butt calling the shots find another compliant Bakra .

I shoot Moharam strictly for the non Muslims my foreigner friends I shoot it so they are aware of our faith and our rituals I am not a Mullah my pictures are words of pain called Ghame Hussain.

I shoot Ajmer Sharif every year as Garib Nawaz is one of the greatest testimony as a lover of Imam Hussain Shah Ast Hussain.

But now Ajmer has another holistic meaning for me as a man of peace I became a Dam Madar Malang ..my teacher is Peer Syed Saab Masoomi ...I document their lives and their love for Imam Ali ..

I shoot most of the major Hindu  feasts festivals in Mumbai .. and when the Kumbh begins I shall join the Naga Sadhus I have a Naga Sadhu teacher Guru from Junagad Akhada Shi Vijay Giri Maharaj.. I havent seen him for many years ..

I used to shoot Mount Mary now my 4 year old grand daughter Marziya shoots it.

I shot the Visarjan of GSB Ganesha hopefully I shall walk barefeet from Lalbagh to Kumbharwada and shoot the Visarjan of Lalbagh Cha Raja fo my Hindu friends ..

And I dont use photography for commercial purpose I dont sell pictures or text .

So I am confused you add me than use me as a punching bag please go punch you parents that were short in teaching you respect for elders etiquette .. and manners .

You have a issue with me or question send me Flickr or Facebook mail I will respond .. if it is necessary otherwise see my pictures move on .. dont add me to your groups and fuck for Heaven sake dont Tag Me at all.. send the post link in a mailbox I will read it..

Lastly I dont drink I dont smoke I dont fornicate but I blog .. I pimp my blogs on the Internet ,, I also pay from my pocket the Internet time I use ..

And once I have completed my debts my responsibilities I wish to renounce this brain dead World of Hate Racism and Bigotry ..

Take Care ...

Beggar Poet

My inner angst against bullies on social networking sites ,, what do they really get ,, they have nothing to offer but hate and adverse comments

Google+Does Not Excite Me The Way Facebook Does

Google+
a better version
more complicated
than Google Buzz
making me
mute posts
every time
i get a nudge
i feel like fudge
bloggers
photographers
spammers
i hold no grudge
from Google+
to Facebook
as i trudge
from Facebook
come what may
i wont budge
i am the victim
i am the jury
i am judge


Sadly I deactivated my Facebook account recently and am back at Google+


Facebook
i left
deactivated
such was my urge
i am on google+
my earlier thoughts
i smudged
with lovers
of facebook
i hold no grudge
i sit on a wall
no updates
whether
to budge
or not to budge
poetically
i surge
i cut
my head
my back
i scourge
with hussain
my soul
i merge
funereal
sorrow
ethereal
dirge