This Was Our Garbage Dump Shot In 2011 ,, Much Before Modijis Swach Bharat

This was the era of Ms Priya Dutt  MP and Mr Baba Siddiqui MLA Congress Party ,, and now in 2015 we have a new set of Bandra ministers Ms Poonam Mahajan MP and Advocate Ashish Shelar MLA both BJP .. our new custodians ,, though the civic corporator is Mr Tanvir Pate of the Congresas Party,,, I dont think he knows about this dump.. the most famous iconic dump of Bandra ,, photographers from all over the world come here to shoot this art form.. the smell , the urban chaos decay and the lilting reminder of mortality and morbidity ,,

My grandchildren got their first lessons in street photography shooting this garbage dump..it is one of its kind and it is prominently placed at Bandra Bazar Road once the heritage and crown of the Bandra Bazar gaothan.


This part of Bandra has gone to seed ,,more than 1200 images and over 80 videos renamed as a set Swach Bandra Bazar Road and Garbage porn.. it will always be here unless the Chicken market shifts to Vashi.. and Mutton and Fish and Buffalo or Buff Meat are banned too.


I call this the Temple of Garbage of the Lord of the Flies ,,young students of photography come here to shoot it too and I am waiting to do a fashion shoot here ,,,

Sadly the residents living here next to this dump hardly care a shit , instead they love and glorify it with dumping their own garbage too.. now we dont have a Mr Rishi Kapoor here , or this place would be as beautiful as Pali Hill..

At Bandra Bazar even the youth are stunted dwarfed and have aged seeing this garbage all their life ,, the slum kids come to play here , women scavengers come here to search for food , meat fish prawns ,,

There was a huge photo op by the BJP party to build a ladies toilet a bhumi pujan but it has yet to see the light of day.. BJP is the only party that promises the sky the moon and the stars ,, but leaves you with Thulla .

I voted for Progress and Development and frankly a Congress Free Bandra and despite the shortcomings of the BJP I will still vote for it as there is no other alternative this side of Bandra .. the Congress decimated demolished the ex ministers hardly come our end ,, The Am Admi party sent us Phiroze Palkiwala .. and we could have had a better choice with Mr Ayub Khan.. a sincere humble Bandraite by birth and not by choice ,,

So these are early morning stray thoughts as I go through my Flickr archives that disappeared for a few minutes last night causing sheer pain and trauma at the Flickr Forum..


My 355000 images came back ..miraculously ,, my entire wealth so to speak poetically and visually ,,

Bandra's Wealth Lies In Its Garbage

This iconic garbage site is in the Jain Mandir Lane that houses Jain owned jewelry shops and the Jain Temple and is in a deplorable state ,, now imagine the attitude and minds of people living in this chawl that houses this garbage site there could be pots of flowers herbal plants instead we have this unkindly sight and we are honestly used to all this .. we have no garbage management , we love to litter and this part of the personality of the Mumbaikar will never change ,,, I know people  who carry their garbage in posh cars and throw it on roadside dumps ,, and you can see this happening at St Peter Road Bandra or even Boran Road Bandra .

Even on festival days you will find garbage littered in the lanes ,and perhaps if the Municipality placed CC TV cameras at some of these garbage sites they could catch these habitual garbage throwers , even a fine of Rs 10000 does not deter them , and this is a psychological problem of the Mumbaikars mind it can never be cured , as I have over the years shot so much of garbage and seen garbage from close quarters that garbage is here to stay forever .

The strange part is that the garbage bins placed in every area are not big enough to take the garbage of  even two buildings and so every one aims and it falls outside the bins ,, the bins are not at at all aesthetic made of cheap third class material it breaks with too much garbage ,, its made of lousy iron sheets and the Bandra Municipality has no sense of aesthetics , and scrounges on money to spend on these bins forget the miserly attitude towards their Conservancy staff that have no safety shoes , gloves or even masks ,,, just a truck that mocks their efforts of Swach Bharat with hollow words CLEAN UP .as hollow as Swach Bharat itself .. misplaced cleanliness , as rapists bag snatchers , murderers , robbers conmen sodomize rs rule the roost unafraid of our cops and our law and its punishment ,,,

Our Congress Corporator is no help either he is not on Twitter where one could reach him.. and barring Advocate Ashish Shelar our other main representative has no time too see all this and  they are beautifying an already beautiful Bandra Bandstand .

The Congress let our area go to seed completely , and so the public gave them a fitting reply , and leaving aside the lone Congress Corporator Bandra Free Congress ,,is the norm.. but thanks to the Beef Ban  people might once again forgive the Congress and bring it back to power in Bandra one day.

I am a street photographer and do not belong to any party , my party is Bandra , where I live and all I want our children their children should inherit a Green Clean Bandra .Garbage Free Bandra ...

The Municipal Guys Keep Bandra Clean..Celebrities Take Their Broom Their Task Demean

simply because on TV newspapers
they want to be seen paid media has
a field day you know what I mean
its these humble conservancy staff
without masks gloves safety shoes
that keep our beautiful Bandra clean
but treated as jamadars mehtars these
are the people that make Bandra pristine
Swach Bandra Swach Bharat ..evergreen
Bandra thats its residents are bent on
calling it The Garbage Porn  Queen...

This Morning I Bowed My Head Reverently To The Lord Of The Flies

he was up earlier than me
grooming his garden as i
was about to pass by
his face red puffed up
drunken morbidly high
he asked me you guys
really generate garbage
fasten than the blink of
the eye ..why ,,i told him
you are the lord the only
chosen lord of the flies
every morning you are
fed dressed cleaned
i did not wish to pry
but i shoot your temple
every morning as my
tribute to your followers
bandra bazar residents
demand and supply
the crows cawing
adding a chorus
of respect as reply
they bid me goodbye
a fat bandicoot in one
corner cursing grunting
no beef no beef no beef
with a huff puff and a cry
why have the politicians
added misery to what he
ate deliciously now a meat
vilified .he looked terrified

Swach Bandra Swach Bharat

bandra bazar road dump
hits you in the guts ,,eye
sore ever smelling rut
like a film strip you cant
edit or cut ..this could
be a childrens park
or better managed
put to better use
the dirtiest ugliest
garbage dump
badly stumped

sandra from bandra
doesn't come here
to flirt ..she might
dirty her mini skirt
or folks would
call her a bandra
slut ,,guys going
crazy going nuts

on the soul of the
people of bandra
bazar voiceless
spectators a kick
on their silent butts

bandra municipality
kicked them first

The MET Grounds Bandra Reclamation Where I Take My Walks

I began walking since 10 Feb ..I walk for about an hour ..
For instance okay  I left my house wearing a new pair of non branded keds ..as I normally walk barefeet or wear slippers I was wearing my wifes keds ,,

This morning I left my house at Bandra Reclamation at 5.40 I walked all the way till the end of Bandra Reclamation beyond the bus depot and took a U turn from Agasty building ,, last building there .. I reached there at 6.09 and walked back via Leelavati Hospital to the MET Grounds to the second part of my walk..

I entered the grounds at 6.15 am .. took 10 rounds the ground is 280 mtrs I was out by 6.45 am than took some street shots of our famous garbage sites at Bandra Reclamation a BJP stronghold and Swach Bandra to me is an impossible dream simply because  the residents mostly slum dwellers dump the garbage in the most abominable manner the garbage bins overflow and the garbage is mostly aimed to the bin but fails to make its mark..

And the garbage bin outside our erstwhile MLA Advocate Ashish Shelars office is another ugly site , here to the slum dwellers throw the garbage outside the bin.. and the Bandra Municipality is the laziest it hardly has staff that can implement Modijis favorite  Swach Bharat Abhiyan..and I say all this as a Bandraite , and this part of ugly Bandra has literally gone to the Dogs.

And I dont merely talk I show it with pictures be it on my mobile hone and it is a sad display of peoples love for filth that they will throw carelessly on public property and roads ..

Neither am I an activist or member of any political party I am a resident of Bandra if it hurts me I am sure it should hurt my MP and my MLA too... our Congress Corporator wont even come to this side of Bandra because of the recent Congress losses ..is all I can think in his defense.