Dreams Lie In Dust In God We Trust

Today was my 7 day of walking .
I left my house at 5.36 I crossed Leelavati Hospital at 5 .47 and end end of Bandra Reclamation near Agasty Building at 5 .59 .
I take a U turn back to Leelavati Hospital and walk to the MET Gardens at 6.06 .

I take 10 rounds that I complete by 6.38 and I am back home by 6.48 .

And earlier when I walked at Carter Road I carried my camera and shot people , or some interesting detail of life ...those days I did not have a camera on my mobile phone and to think I had a Blackberry much later but never used it as a camera it would have been an insult to my DSLR .

My son presented me the Motorola G old version that I use and shoot pictures prolifically ,,and now I dont carry my camera on my walks , there is nothing much to shoot from my house till the end of Bandra Reclamation .. just the dump off Rand Sharda and ricksha guys defecating with deafening roars mostly migrants from Uttar Pradesh .. and at 5.30 am there is huge crowd this end .. some sleep in the rickshas so the open dump or a mound is the best public toilet ,, there is no lavatory or public toilet on this stretch.

The ragpickers cum drug addicts or junkies sleep on the roads , and the Municipal Childrens playground next to MET  Gardens is a hub for drunkards and junkies , badly maintained , no lighting pitch dark and also used as gym by the locals from the adjoining slums .But I have seen the educated class living in the buildings across are happy , and this is a solid BJP Shivsena vote bank.. they dont care and dont complain.. life goes on.

And our political honchos take extra mileage using actor Sharukh Khans ramp as means of appeasing and holding on to the Christian votes .. The ramp a concrete platform where he parked his vanity van.. was demolished to give access to those who use this path to visit Mount Marys Basilica .

There is so much ugliness in and around Bandra Bazar Road , Bandra Reclamation , Chinchpokli Road that it is not see bt our local representatives .

Trees have been chopped near ONGC quarters , Bandra Reclamation but they have been dumped on the pavement the Municipality has no time to clear it I have been seeing it since the time I began walking.. and if there is a useless civic body in Bandra it is the Bandra Municipality and they dont care a flying fuck.. the greatest enemy of Bandra is the Bandra Municipality , totally insensitive , apathetic and not interested in seeing Bandra beautiful once Bandra was known as the Queen of the Suburbs ,, now it is a Queen of open gutters and bad roads .

And because of this neglect Bandra once a Congress citadel slipped out of their slithering hands .. the Hand that could barely rock the vote banks they had created in the slums.Even the slumdwellers gave them a golden handshake .

Our local representatives sadly dont love Bandra as they should ,, our MP stays in the tony surroundings of Worli.. and our MLA has a lot of city responsibilities of his party.

There should b a CEO for Bandra ..and they should privatize the Municipality .. I was going to have a photo walk with  young photographers to show them the dirtiest ugliest parts of Bandra .. and I kept it on hold in case the political representatives want to join in too,..

And there has to be a purpose to photography , it is a means  to an end shedding light on the nether regions of darkness and despair .Why cant Bandra be a model suburb... it has beauty it has culture heritage and smart kids ..

I met Michael my English walking friend he wants me to come to his school where he teaches in Worli and give a talk on photography to the young kids , photography should be a subject that should be taught from primary,,it would change the way a child thinks and sees the world.
My 3 year old grand daughter youngest street photographer of Bandra Nerjis was telling her grand ma my wife ,, Dadda meaning Granny my pictures are on Flickr ,, meaning her pictures are on Flickr ,,

The metaphorical power of the camera Shivas Third Eye.

Mumbai Is Strange City All I Can Tell

a street scene college girl
yet to come out of valentine
days spell wondering thinking
of moments now gone back
into a shell he did not call her
today all is not well nervous
soul of this comely belle ,,
on the other side the beggar
weaving dreams of coming out
of his bad days as he begs
outside a hotel dry day means
no clientele the boozers off
day he misses the whiff of
the heady smell.. a couple
had a tiff walking away in
anger love that stormy
emotions cannot  quell
not in the picture the hotel
manger tells the beggar to
fuck off as he shouts yells
3 street stories running
simultaneously ,,in a nutshell

street photography is a textless
book of imagery  shot as a novel

dedicated to my good friend kelly rae
a photographer in portraiture excels
kind humble bold beautiful rebel ...
every frame that evolves propels

India Beats Pakistan By The Grace Of God ,,

O LORD YOU ARE OUR  STRENGTH

If You Have Diabetes Walking is a Must..

A new study from George Washington University shows that a 15-minute walk after each meal can help lower your risk for type 2 diabetes, especially in elderly adults, and can significantly reduce blood sugar levels and help minimize the risk of cardiovascular diseases.

To arrive at their results, researchers evaluated 10 volunteers in their early 70s. Participants had elevated blood sugar levels, but were not diabetic. Over the course of four weeks, participants engaged in three separate two-day tests. During these tests, their blood sugar levels were constantly monitored. Researchers asked the participants to walk on a treadmill for either 45 minutes in the mid-morning or afternoon, or for 15 minutes after each meal.

Here are the most noteworthy findings:

Three short walks after meals were just as effective as a 45-minute walk in reducing blood sugar.
High post-dinner blood sugar is a strong indicator of excessive 24-hour glucose levels, so resting after a meal can be one of the worst habits to fall in to.
Walking after the evening meal, which tends to be the largest consumed, was most effective.
The results come as good news to older people who may tire easily and need to exercise in smaller increments.

Lisa Chow, M.D., an endocrinologist from the  Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Minnesota who studies the effect of exercise on metabolism, offered her thoughts on the results.

“Considering a lot of elderly patients generally don’t get much physical activity, some exercise is better than none,” said Chow. “If someone can get their recommended 45 minutes a day from three 15-minute sessions, then that should be incorporated into a daily routine.”

Surprisingly, the study also found three 15-minute walks to be more effective than a three hour long walk after an evening meal. However, researchers stressed that this routine shouldn’t be aimed at weight loss, but rather, glycemic control.

“Considering that many people are inactive, inclusion of regular tolerated exercise in any form is a great idea,” said Chow. “This study shows that even a small amount of exercise can make a positive impact on one’s health. The point is to not get overwhelmed by the prospect of exercise. Just go out and be active.”

So today, after a meal, take the dog for a stroll around the block or run a quick errand; it could be doing a lot more good than you think.

Read more about the study here.

Editor’s note: Study researchers caution their results should now be confirmed in larger groups.

 courtesy

www.healthtalk.umn.edu/2013/06/20/research-shows-15-minut...

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.

Happy Valentines Day ,From A Lover Whose Girl Left Him

for his best friend on this very day
so on valentines day he gets drunk
sozzled call it what you may to forget
those fucked memories nostalgic moments
all gone away..she wanted a big fat wedding
lots of money to spend she wanted have her
way,, is all he wants to say love is a delusion
it robbed him of his peace of mind for no
greater punishment than death he prays to
leave this sick world false allurements ..false
hope tricks that she played finally got away

The Congress Effect In Bandra

Though they the Congress Party  lost the elections in Bandra , they are not interested in re connecting with the public trying to regain their lost bastion not at all.

Unlike Mr Arvind Kejriwal they are so arrogant in their loss that they dont try to find out why they lost in Bandra once the heritage of late Mr Sunil Dutt .

Simply because people saw through their politics of appeasement for their own ends ,,and it will continue in the same vein if they dont get off their high horses .

Nobody talks good of them instead everyone curses them ..in the Bandra Bazar Market including the slum pockets .. and why am I saying all this because my family was a traditional Congress voter we got disgusted with them .. they were visible in the early years only during election time once they won they just disappeared and we got fed up of their colorful Dengue Free Bandra brochures that were more to make the Christians happy , make the Sindhis happy , the slums can hardly read so the brochures were not for them and I feel sick that our local media licked their pompous asses to push their agenda of having done nothing the paver tiles is the greatest curse to the bylanes of Bandra...ugly and a eyesore.

They neglected the middle class Muslims like us  , they did not bother about the Marathi Manoos or the Dalits ... they totally disrespected the East Indians , bent on demolishing their ancestry and today the Gaothan are in need of holistic healing.

The builder politician nexus is what one heard saw and slowly the vote bank of the Congress in Bandra evaporated and will be decimated like Delhi if they dont get serious about re inventing and rethinking.

They kept their affiliates , ass lickers sycophants  in the best of health and wealth this is what the common man of Bandra says , all they did was get a public toilet  door repaired and this in pre dominantly Muslim slums .They divided the Bandra Manoos as Muslims Hindus and Dalits and this fell smack on their Face .They lost Bandra forever .. for now ,,

They never learnt the power of social networking they knew zilch about Twitter Facebook or blogging they had no Bhakts like the followers of Modiji or like Mr Arvind Kejriwal , people with love passion for the party and for India .. they got eaten away by their empty rhetoric's and their hollow brochures .. that reached  houses via the newspapers but not millions like the Internet.

Will they learn,,, I doubt it , they never encouraged  college kids , they pampered those that helped their agenda , they forgot the power of the social media savvy Youth .

See the BJP Bhakts vociferous faithful and even towering high after the Delhi loss ,, and above all see the collective cohesiveness of moral strength of the Delhi Am Admi party , sadly the Mumbai Am Admi party may have done its bit in Delhi but it takes a back seat in Mumbai itself.. less said the better .

And the problem is when people wrote about the Congress shortcomings in their blogs nobody in their hierarchy was willing to read it or implement Change ,

And I am not bad mouthing the Congress but a new younger youthful face or faces are required to rejuvenate the Congress Party..or it is Doomsday for the civic elections in 2017.

And as bloggers are not given space to be read in newspapers I hope they read this as a blog ,, we write without being paid we certainly dont go under the editors desk. lol . and we write with moderation and with respect and we write for the greater good of Bandra .

We may belong to any political party but all parties in democratic India are Indian..I do not belong to any political party thankfully I write and photography reality with Truth ..

And I hope this is taken as constructively by those who will inherit the leadership of Bandra .. be it Congress BJP Shiv Sena or the impending return of the Am Admi Party.

This picture of the garbage lying open is a common feature near the slums with the Congress banner near the dirtiest Municipal Garden close to MET Grounds Bandra Reclamation supposedly the citadel and vote bank of erstwhile Shiv Sena BJP.