The Marathi Manoos At The MET Cricket Grounds

I began walking since 10 Feb 2015  and I have seriously adhered to my routine I missed two days as I was part of a Bollywood shoot of my favorite actor Mr Danny Denzongpa.

I have changed my routine earlier I walked to the end of Bandra Reclamation I have discontinued this part of my road walk instead I walk at the MET Grounds take about 20 to 25 rounds each round is about 280 mtrs.

Than I walk to the next door Gen Arun Vaidya Childrens park do some free hand exercises I call it our local gym..I have made a few friends here and lean some new exercise or other .
Today after almost a month I saw the face of the security guard, I was totally surprised as this park is the haunt of drunkards and drug addicts and sadly our local representatives have not yet visited this park to see it going to seed ..this park could be revitalized and made intoone of the best parks of Bandra ,The will of the people of this BJP Shivsena vote bank is missing.. and they hardly care ..

The outer space of this childrens municipal park is used as garbage dump , for last three days I have been shooting an abandoned toilet and today I shot a cycle chained to the park..and the security guard told me it has been here for a long time he does not know the owner .

I have met friends on my walk one Mr Nurruddin Panjwani and a NRI gentleman from Canada Mr Mazumdar a passionate walker and does yoga ..

After I finish my exercise routine I take a short cut viathe Bazar Sunni mosque take a shot of a friendly pony ..that is used by a Christian friends for Buggy rides at Almeida Park.
He takes very good of his ponies personally.

After that I shot the beef market totally shut down because of the Beef Ban.. the guys who worked here are now jobless and unemployed and this means without politicizing it , that it is used to appease RSS the parent body of the BJP.. I think if they feel all cattle should be banned than they should ban mutton chicken and pork too.

And I feel most of the unemployed Muslim workers now demoralized with the ban might be drawn into criminal activities to make ends meet ,, I hope not as every newspaper only highlights Muslim criminals and their criminal acts even before they are investigated or proved guilty ,thereby instigating public opinion and sometimes  irresponsible media news  can lead to the murder of an innocent man.and the eunuch cops of Dimapur Nagaland as much guilty as the vigilante crowd .

I came home had a glass of milk the diabetic medicine over soaked in water Paneer Ka Pjool  read both Hindudtan Times Sunday Midday and crashed I got up at 1.30 .. We have discontinued DNA newspaper at our house ,,

After a shower I took my granddaughter Nerjis Asif Shakir to shoot the Pandal of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Bandra Bazar Road . making her stand on a chair she shot the arti.

Than I took a haircut and afterwards while heading home Nerjis shot the two senior beggars Jaffar Bhai and Khwajah Bhai gave them money too.

And she shot the ill famed ugliest spot in Bandra Bazar our Municipal dump..she has been shooting this dump since the age of 2 ,, the heritage of a Bandra Bazar gone to seed.

Happy International Womans Day.. and Nerjis shot a picture of a woman lying on the road .. no past no present no future ,,

Jesus And The Muslim Beggar At De Monte Street Bandra

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..