For Fuck Sake Read My Profile Before You Add Me As A Contact On Flickr

For Fuck Sake Read My Profile Before You Add Me As A Contact On Flickr, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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I relive a nightmare every time I log into Flickr where all my blogs poems street pictures originate.

As a person like many of you I have my likes dislikes preferences and what I shoot is not what I like but I shoot it all the same I shoot culture rituals customs that are part of the crucible of peace in the land I live in India the place of my birth and heritage.

I dont ridicule the people I shoot or insult their ancestry or religiosity and I dont shoot porn or filth, it is not necessary I shoot only what you like , my account is marked SAFE by Flickr management and the buck stops there.

I shoot Shiasm although I am a Shia Muslim but if you are watching my pictures than see them as a part of religious photo journalism.. It matters not whether you like Shia or consider them infidels that is your personal prerogative I wont change.

Be human as I am when I shot these pictures , I am a Muslim but the bulk of my images pay tribute to Hinduism , part of a thread I shoot as photojournalism called Hope and Hindutva a Message of Peace and Humanity.

I shoot Hijras and I have a Hijra Guru though I am a straight heterosexual male

I shoot Hijras the transgender to show you their struggle with a system that treats them as Untouchables.

Now perhaps you who add me as a contact on Flickr have your own views preferences but dont shove it up my reluctant ass.. I am not interested in seeing transgender body parts , how they fuck or how they give head.

Please dont treat me as a Moron , read my Profile for fuck sake before you add me, dont add me without a profile picture or incomplete profile bio data .

I have thus blocked 496 contacts at Flickr nothing personal but my way of acceptance on my terms.


My Profile you have to read before you Add me as contact on Flickr, I think in this regard Facebook is million light years ahead from a monolithic system of adding contacts or friends at Flickr.

Because of all this as a silent protest seeking change conducive to harmony and peace as blogger whose pictures educate show you the underbelly of life on the edge I have strangled my Flickr comment box forever.

Stop adding me to your Groups I am not interested,,,

www.flickr.com/people/firozeshakir/

My Flickr Profile Reads as Follows

PLEASE READ MY PROFILE BEFORE YOU ADD ME AS A CONTACT HERE AT FLICKR

I have stopped adding transgender crossdressers gays homosexuals with lewd photo streams and favorites as contacts completely I will block you with immediate effect.

Unauthorized use or reproduction of my pictures or text for any reason is prohibited ...

PLEASE DONT ADD ME AS A CONTACT IF YOU ARE INTO PORN SEMI PORN , KINKY GROUPS I AM NOT INTERESTED IN BEING A POSTER BOY ON YOUR LIST OF FRIENDS EVEN IF IT IS ONE SIDED FROM YOUR END- I WILL BLOCK YOU IMMEDIATELY ..PLEASE RESPECT MY RIGHT OF PRIVACY..AS I RESPECT YOURS..

DO NOT ADD ME AS A CONTACT if you have tasteless masturbationally self-indulgent crap on your page!..find someone of your own kind dont subject me to blocking you - which I will if I see my thumbnail on your contacts page.


PLEASE DONT SEND ME INVITATIONS FOR GROUPS..I DONT BELONG TO GROUPS HERE OR AT FACEBOOK OR ELSEWHERE

I WILL BLOCK ONE SIDED CONTACTS THAT HAVE ADDED ME WITHOUT THEIR PROFILE OR AVATAR OR THOSE INTO KINKY GROUPS..PORN ETC..


I HAVE BLOCKED 496 SUCH CONTACTS..

A Humble Request to those who visit my site for the first time..whatever your religion or faith, I shoot all religions, so please see the respective collection that is part of your religious or mental make up, my main collections are Shiasm, Hinduism, Christianity , Sufism, Poetry, Maryamma Feast 2008-2009, and a collection of Hijdas ..



Just see what is appropriate to your taste..this is a photo journalist blog, just remember this is my photo stream I call the shots..I am doing a public service by showing you a corner of my world that you wont see in travel brochures..

I do not promote any religion..I cannot cater to your individual religious taste .. I am a Shia Blogger but not bound to any ideology of narrow mindedness or bigotry..

As a silent protest I have removed my comment boxes from all my Flickr pictures till one day when Flickr introduces Comment Moderation, the right to publish a comment rests in my hands , I will keep my comment box off limits to the public..




Firoze Shakir
Photographerno1..is a Shia mystic..they don't make like this any more.. he walks on fire,self flagellates,cuts his forehead each Moharam.. he is sane as sane as you or the guy next door,..
HE WALKS BARE FEET..MOCKING AND KISSING THE GROUND WITH HIS FEAT.. THEY SHED TEARS TOO..SOAKED IN BLOOD OF PAIN.

I shoot pictures of pain , as I see pain in the viewfinder of my soul, my poems are my personal thoughts , perhaps they are a bit opinionated.I am not a Mullah or a preacher ,
I give space I don't need to grab attention.

Flickr is where all my posts blogs poems originate..

In a way Flickr is my homesite -

Two years free Pro membership was presented to me by Dr Glenn Losack MD the furious physician.


Firoze Shakir
Photographerno1

5 July 2007 Mumbai India

President Obama At Holy Name High School Mumbai

President Obama At Holy Name High School Mumbai, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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www.holynamers.com/index.html

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dancing with the kids
to the tune of a koli song
obama with two left feet
michelle more fluid
headstrong
as she moved along
to the beats of
hope and humanity
making two nations
brave and strong
a bond of peace
lifelong
prosperity this diwali
auspicious all along
a world without borders
to which as humans
we belong a path
of freedom truth justice
liberty equality
always right
never wrong

an after thought
as a cosmic poet
i prolong

obama makes the word dance to his tune
a message of power of politics headlong
two right feat a power greater than king kong




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ZVSm1lBxo

Holy Name High School Colaba

Holy Name High School Colaba, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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not campion
not cathedral
john conon
nor st marys
instead president
obama chose
holy name high school
a thought boastful
a trip useful
of an educational
modest module
the gods thankful
sweet memories
of an alma mater
moment relived
like a magical film
on the soul
of lost childhood
as it unspools
from the drain of life
into the whirlpool
time and tide
awakening the soul
as poetic gruel
calisthenics of a
karmic mind
uber cool
the ghost
of fr f x fernandes
watching the kids
as they break
some more rules
walk dont run
in a tinpot school
outside the classrom
of mrs menezes
sanding on a stool
reminiscing
desensitizing
the wise dumb and the fool

Keith Kanga on my Birthday

Keith Kanga on my Birthday, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

An Ode To Keith Kangas Granny

An Ode To Keith Kangas Granny, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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Photo courtesy Madhoo facebook

My childhood
chopped pieces
of mincemeat
sweet bitter
memories
of jony castle
wodehouse road
images with time and tide
continuously compete
granny keith kanga fu fu
the hot bitch always
in simmering heat
my job was to see
that fu fu did not
get fucked by
other horny stray dogs
in dark back streets
as in the grasp of
moonlit nights
i searched for
her barefeet
fu fu dreams
lost illusions
within a heart beat
this was the house
that gave birth
to atomic forest
the heart of rock
nifty and neat
or arthur bunder road
slip disc
where rockers meet
led zeppelin
jamming
fusion
incredible feat
granny lovable
messy disheveled
reading the bible
as our eyes meet
incorrigible
hardcore
Jehovah witness
follower
all other religiosity
caste custom or creed
she would brow beat
her paradise where
rivers of milk honey
flowed flavored
eternally sweet
a watch tower
for the elite
proselytizing
spiritual conceit
sometimes i wonder
she fufu keith
up there
me down here
a circle
incomplete
my life i live
my living death
even dying death
defying death
could
not cheat

Friends Die Friendship Lives On Forever

Friends Die Friendship Lives On Forever, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

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I got the link of this picture of Keith Kanga my childhood friend through a Facebook message from another friend Rama Sethu Ranga Nathan November 2 at 10:54am


Dear Mr.Firoze Shakir,
Salam Mala Kum.

Greetings from Chennai.

Madukar Chandradas Was Also a Singer from Atomic Forest an
old friend of mine.In this collection you may see some of your friends and the Granny From Johnny's castle

I will be in Mumbai from 11 th Dec to 17 th Dec.for an AA Conference in St.Pious Church in Goregaun.

Would like to meet you and go on a street Shoot with you.
Kindly send your contact phone no's.

My respects to you.
God Bless.
Regards.

Rama Sethu

So with humble apologies to Madhoo I post this picture of Keith Kanga founder of Atomic Forest that was in the beginning was known as 100 Ton Chicken.

Keith studied at Cathedral & John Connon school for a short while and his principal those days was Mr Gunnery , Keiths life story is a saga of pain doom and misplaced martyred destiny.

Keith was one of the richest kids of mixed parentage his father Dossabhai Kanga was a Parsi businessman , highly educated cultured , and owned the famous New Era Printing Press at Worli , I saw his father once and that was when his body was being taken for funeral , I still remember it vividly.

He left behind his widow Gwendolyn Keiths mom and Keith..and a palatial house at Khatau Bhuvan that later on came to be called Jony Castle.

Keith mom sent Keith to a boarding school in Darjeeling and when she missed him , she would request my mom to allow me to stay with her this was my proximity with this motherly lady, the most beautiful the most gorgeous that God ever made.

I slept in her bedroom and we would endlessly talk about Keith she loved him far too much her only son and its tough to retrieve the long lost memories from the recycling bin of a past that has moved away fast and faded too.

I am 58 years old so memory is not in the best of health to reminisce old times..

Keith had a vibrant Parsi connection Keki Uncle Jangoo Uncle and many uncles as his mother loved company and lived on the edge , heavy drinking and late night parties was the order of the Kanga house.

Khatau Bhuvan had two wings I stayed in a servants quarters with 3 rooms at Wing A and my father Mohomed Shakir was the tenant of Late actor Nawab Kashmiri's family.

Nawab saab was already dead when we moved here from a hovel at Kurla and my dad worked at N Swamy Rao Tailors Wodehouse Road those day early 50 s .

Keiths mom died of cirrhosis of the liver, and after a legal battle Keiths custody was granted to his maternal grand mother we called Granny instead of his Parsi relatives .

Thus began the rise and fall of Keith Kanga the pioneer of Rock in Mumbai perhaps India too.

And I shall continue this episode on the picture of Granny in my next post.

We moved away from Jony Castle in 1963 and a short stint at Breach Candy we finally made Mohini Mansions Strand Cinema our home and I met Keith on and off.

In the 70 s I joined Burlingtons of Bombay at Taj Mahal Hotel and every night after my late shift I would meet Keith Kanga at Slip Disc the local hub of Rock Music and sit and chat with him..and he was very fond of me..

I called him Baba like all others did.

But before this meeting my father suffered a great financial loss and he was totally destroyed both in mind and body and this was during my SSC final exams , he had sent my mom sisters younger brother to Lucknow , Shakil one of my other brothers stayed with him in a lodge and our house at Mohini Mansions my dad gave away on rent , I did not want to go to Lucknow because of my impending exams Granny and Keith immediately gave me shelter and I stayed with them for about 6 months till my exams got over and good times bought my mom and the rest of the family back to Mumbai.

Those six months with Keith and Granny and a pet dog called Fu Fu was part of my poetic illusions..

Granny though a Jehovah witness racist and bigot towards all religion liked me because she knew I was Keiths favorite , thus began my Bible studies brain storming and every means to make me a Jeovahs witness , my baptism was to take place at Cuffe Parade that was only a sickly beach those days opposite the Badhwar Park but to my good luck it rained and the baptism was kept for a later date..

I was taken way reunited with my family with no dent to my spirituality , Jeovahs witness those days was intense hate for all and I do not want to blame Granny for her actions she never stood up for the recital of the National anthem when the movie ended pretending she had an injured leg.

She and both her doting grandson were destroyed but a religion that was totally anti human and a Lost Paradise and a Shaky Watch Tower.

She did not like Catholics be it Philip or Erwie Vaz or Appolonius who was Keiths constant help and drug mate.

Jimmy Baria who stayed on her wing at Jony Castle was never spared for being a fire worshiping Parsi.

The only friend ours who got special treatment was Vimal from Sri Lanka his father was a goldsmith at Gazdar Taj Mahal...Vimal studied at Campion was close to Keith too.
Than there was Dinshah Sanjana Rayomand Framroze, Soli, and many others but yes I remember Neil Chatophadya ..

I had once gone to Pune when Keith played for Three Coins.

Atomic Forest jammed with foreign players too ..

It was at a bar many years later after Keith got married was usurped cunningly of all his property by a wily landlord it is alleged that I saw his obituary he had gone into the world of lost dreams unannounced and it was Keith Viegas another friend who had placed the obituary.

Keith Kanga touched everyone and through my blogs bits of memories I share Keith Kanga with all of you..

Yes Friends Die Friendship lives on Forever like a drop of molten tear on a wizened cheek of Hope ..

RIP
Keith Kanga of Atomic Forest

Marziya Shakir The Worlds Youngest Street Photographer

Marziya Shakir The Worlds Youngest Street Photographer, originally uploaded by firoze shakir photographerno1.

Does Marziya Shakir Really need a Press Card to shoot Crappy pictures that you see day in and day out in our long gone to seed in Indian newspapers..