Thursday, January 26, 2012

Going to Carter Road On Republic Day 2012

This morning was my day off I decided to turn Malang barefeet and all and take Marziya Shakir my street photographer grand daughter to Carter Road , she shot the Republic day Function there and later both of us shot the Republic day function at St Stanislaus High School Bandra .

We both than headed home ..

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Imtiyaz Qureishi Shot By Marziya Shakir 4 Year Old

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I Invariably Mess Up Marziyas Second Shot

Marziya shoots according to her impulse only I think she has not shot well so I tell her to take another shot that is when she gets nervous though her first shot was confidently and brilliantly shot ..

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Happy Republic Day Shot By Marziya Shakir 4 Year Old

This morning I got into my old avatar my blessed barefeet and took Marziya Shakir to Carter Road being a holiday at my workplace and I wanted to give Marziya a free hand with my camera and her street vision.. she shot the promenade and a street function there later I bought her to St Stanislaus where both of us shot the school Republic Day function.. than we both headed home.

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On The Graveyard of My Doomed Deleted Dreams

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the silver kadas
i sold off to
pay for stolen
hopes a lost
moment in time
lost illusions
it seems
pathos passion
poetry
entombed
in the cavernous
grave inundated
with my blood
sweat tears
on my photo stream
the flesh was
willing surrendered
the captive soul
lets our a
painful scream
all lost
nothing but
a tattered
winding sheet
waiting to
be redeemed

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I Wont Shoot The Gay Pride This Year ..

I have the greatest respect for the gay community , I am much closer to the hijra community because hijra icon of freedom from slavery Laxmi Narayan Tripathi is my hijra guru.. and I document the angst the hardships the sufferings of the other sex always abused , their androgynous human rights trampled , by homophobic hate , by god men and upcoming political activists who seek mileage because of vote bank politics ..

I have as a blogger as a street photographer pedestrian poet of sorts through imagery of words and pictures captured their eternal pain, some of my best friends are gay and I have the best of relationship with them.

Every year I leave my work I come out on the streets bare feet in the hot sun shoot the Queer Azadi March to show my solidarity with them like others who join in and support this human cause .... I am no big gun photographer I but shoot what others dont shoot I shoot the inner strength of this indomitable spirit of survival of the most neglected class in society..I shoot them their world with a divine passion.. I blog I cross blog their pathos poetry to my Hijras of India website on Wordpress , Twitter and Google+I have deactivated my Facebook Account since September ..

But last year I was unnecessarily targeted by a gay activist bigot I have decided best to stay away avoid controversies and not shoot this event this year , this is my personal pain as a protest..nothing personal with the rest of the gay community ..

I wish them success peace hope harmony and as a Dam Madar Malang I bless them too..
Dam Madar Beda Par..

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Lost Illusions

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