Holding His Future In His Hand

Holding His Future In His Hand, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

piddling away
he stands
his mind
no one
understands
a cosmic reality
unplanned
his hopes
sinking
in quick sands
what he is
what he was
what he cant be
his life rotting
away belligerently
in wastelands
shortage and demand
his doomed destiny
not at his
beck and command

Ishq Hua Hijde Se To Pari Kya Cheez Hai

Ishq Hua Hijde Se To Pari Kya Cheez Hai, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

waqt ne
lakar chorahe
par chod diya
meri manzil
uski dehleez hai
yeh hijda
bhi kya
cheez hai
kabhi badtameez
aur kabhi
adab aur
tehzeeb hai
hijde ka
bhi kya
nasib hai

Ishq Hua Hijde Se To Pari Kya Cheez Hai

The Hijra Beauty in Bloom

The Hijra Beauty in Bloom, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Society biased hateful
uses her as broom
fucked hijra fate
fucked hijra doom
begging on trains
getting fucked in a room
the hijra livelihood
desperate defiant
a nubile male
phenomenon
in a womans costume
her sweatiness
her body's
androgynous
perfume
the hijra is
the hijra was
a hijra from
the cradle
to the tomb
fucked fruit
of the loom
pain eternal
a poison
to consume
she is human
but a hijra
you assume
smoke
without fire
some fume


to Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

Best Wishes and prayers for her family

Beggar Hijras in the Train Hijra Vardan

Beggar Hijras in the Train Hijra Vardan, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Invariably I meet hijras on the crossroads of life I call this phenomenon Hijra Vardan, a gift by Providence and there is no escaping this for the hija and me.

I did not meet hijras on my return journey as I came by road.


The hijras on the trains is a quintessential quality of train travel and the hijra is ubiquitously a rt of the begging scenario.

These hijras liked me and were from Mumbai..

The new Flickr photo page. Bigger. Faster. More Flickr-er.

The new Flickr photo page. Bigger. Faster. More Flickr-er., originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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This was shot in the Dadar Ajmer Express while going fo the Ajmer Urus 2010

Thank you Flickr

If you could only get rid of a nightmare called one sided contacts who add you and removing them is a tedious procedure that requires blocking.

I have blocked 400 such one sided contacts mostly those who have sexually porn explicit pictures on their photo stream and favorites.


It should be like Facebook where you either add him or ignore him.

Comment moderation is important to photographers like us who shoot controversial stuff as street and religious documentary.

Barring this Flickr is the best website to showcase your thoughts and pictures.

Indi Blogger has finally accepted my photo steam as Flickr Blogs ..Thank you Renee

The Impostor Hijras of Mumbai

The Impostor Hijras of Mumbai, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

They have all the looks of the hijra save the hardcore mannerisms of the hijras ..

A lot of young unemployed kids join them wear women clothes purely to make a fast buck.

This lot I have shot for several years , these are beggar hijras nonetheless , most of them touch my feet and call me Maharaj, thinking I am connected to religious order, but they have visited my earlier work place too so are aware of my profession.

They keep asking me pictures I have taken of them but I have not given them any copies till date.

The House of the Umbrella Lady of Bandra Reclamation

The House of the Umbrella Lady of Bandra Reclamation, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

The lady who lives under this umbrella faces the fury of the monsoonal showers flooding, but she wont seek a better safe haven.

I have been documenting her wretched life ,I give her money, I could have got a beautiful shot had I offered her money and she popped her head out, she did it the next day but I did not shoot her at all.


Such is pain of living unprotected to the whims and vagaries of nature ,I call her the Umbrella lady of Bandra Reclamation.,