This Goat Was Missing My Friend Magic Eye ..He said If I Dont See Him I Will Die

I asked him why
he blushed
twinkling eyes
he said deepak
ambebal to
animals is very
sweet and nice
outside jade gardens
he feeds stray dogs
cats even  mice
good food not leftovers
despite the steep price rise
magic eye he said turning
coy is a saint in disguise
on his bike like a bison
with wings he flies ,,
a good photographer
he shoots pleasing
pictures that hold us in
a vice ,,photoblog
award of the year
to me wont be a
surprise ,,,so went
on this friendly
neighborly goat of
bandra talao.. his
words of praise or
loaded dice ,,,
jesus h christ

And Mind You Garbage Dumps Near Muslim Slums Are Ignored By The Municipality

Sometimes We Search For Our Roots Below The Soil..

The Only Lady Chaiwali Of Bandra Reclamation Anandiben

I normally met her in the mornings while going for my walks , but  I passed her tea shop in the afternoon and first thing she offered me a cup of tea I politely refused and gave my diabetic condition as the only excuse .
She is one of the finest tea makers in Bandra and do taste her tea off Lal Mitti at Bandra Reclamation, it is wellmade and has a mothers touch and all the rickshawallas of Bandra drop in here for her tea .. She comes to work at 6 am.. and works till late evening ,,, will the Media interview a person like her .. no they only interview chaiwalas who made it big in the political arena .

Wah Re Hindustan.. Garib Bhi Karte Hain Balidan ,,

Sab Ka Sath Sab Ka Vikas

I have never seen such pain all my life shooting the streets , this guy was lying in a predominantly Muslim area of Bandra that is not a slum but a cluster of buildings close to a few shops that sell buffalo meat .. I dare not say Beef,,

I shot several frames as two Muslim youth saw me attentively but said nothing ,, I was shooting all this on my Xiaomi ,,, a phone that gets hot much faster than me and hangs ,, luckily I hang by the end of the pictures I shoot ,,

And God above directs me to such situations he  creates them for me and I hardly come to this area I used to once upon a time to pay my internet charges to MTNL .. now my son does it online , he pays for one provider and I pay for the second one that is Brian Internet .I pay Brian quarterly Rs 3600 for 4 MB unlimited .

So its my time my internet money my photography  , shot with my camera or mobile phone and my vision as fucked as it might be .. so I dont understand why trolls get unhappy with what I shoot , here at Flickr I allow comments only to those I follow or my followers ..I like it that way ..and I blog my posts from Flickr to Tumblt pimp it on Blogspot Google + Ello and a link with photo on Twitter .
I stopped posting my stuff on Indivine at Indiblogger ,, I took a permanent sabbatical.. away from competitive photography and blogging ,, and sadly bloggers still dont know that blogging is original content not duplicating stuff from the net with web images ,,I would give up blogging the day I have to use pictures  from the web instead of my own.

And there is so much to shoot and more than the camera you need that gifted cosmic eye to see it .. and a bit of Gods instructing hand pointing to the picture you must shoot and honestly I shot a lot today ,, first time my memory card on my mobile phone was full .

There is a hell of a lot of stuff eagerly dying to be shot , and be it beggars, garbage ,earcleaners , Bandra skywalk, Bandra Talao there is no shortage of Original Content ..

I saw a family sitting at the Bandra Talao passionately shooting , both father with a red body camera long telly lens and his son with a smaller camera . I added them to my video.. without they being aware that I am a photographer too..

Sometimes I Wonder If Life Is Really Worth Living

Who is he , what is his name , he is not originally from Bandra but since a long time he sits close to my house begs .. and he is in a bad state of human deterioration..

Sometimes I see him when I go for my walk. he gives a very funny smile and he knows that I know what is going on in his head ..there are times he sits close to a mound near our areas only country hooch outlet , and now there are many like him at Bandra Bazar Road and they are drinking themselves to death..and than we ban everything but we  the government  dont have the guts to ban hooch country liquor or chewing tobacco.. because everyone has a stake and so instead the ban is placed on bulls and bullocks and consumption of beef , 5 years in jail Rs 10000 fine , but hooch and chewing tobacco is here to stay including drugs ,, In Bandra where I stay there are a lot of drugaddicts and most of them are ragpickers .

So at times I am really confused ..when I am depressed I go to the Bandra Talao and shoot videos today I shot two videos of Bandra Skywalk.. I am an amateur and trying to get the hang of video shooting but my videos are a corollary  to the stills I shoot ..

The entrance to the Bandra Talao from the pigeon feed sellers end was shut by tin sheets a few days back but somebody bought it down and I shot the renovation work going on at the pond .

The ear cleaners are now sitting near the reading stand on two   stones and I ended shooting the videos of Nabi and Raju.. they are both from the same village Hindu and Muslim living in peace and harmony ,, and Nabi has his own house at Gynaeshwar Nagar Bandra East..though they all hail from Gulbarga Karnataka ,, they are actually farmers ,, in the ear cleaning service ,, and Kassim is Nabis brother today I asked them a lot of questions inspired by @yourdailybread at Ello..

The Bandra Talao

The left side of the Talao is being renovated and was accessible from the reading stand on , but on 14 April tin sheets were placed at this entrance barring entry to the ear cleaners or people that fed the pigeons ,, I shot this from the Bandra skywalk..

The pace of work like most Municipality work is  like seeing an action film in super slow motion.. I was very tired and did not get down or cross the road to check further .

But the water this reading stand end is badly polluted , and on the side leading to the Bandra Station end you can see young boys with fishing lines surreptitiously catching fish .. there never was any security person so people used to fish and ironically there were people feeding bread to the fishes at the same point on the Talao..

And as you moved towards the further end on the right side of my picture and than turned left , there is an area encroached and used by ragpickers .. this is the dirtiest unkempt part of the Bandra Talao..and here too  there is no security , the work is going on this end too.

A family with dogs pups uses this place as their home ,, and life goes by ,,

I dont know how the Bandra Talao will look once it is renovated..but that it is finally being renovated beautified is no doubt a very big achievement ,,the Congress during its 15 year tenure did nothing  and were hell bent on reclaiming it as their efforts and achievement ,,though it is now officially being   done by the BJP Party in Bandra ..and much of this is thanks to Advocate Mr Ashish Shelar and MP Ms Poonam Mahajan,

This unlike the Bandra Bandstand is the poor mans recreational space .. with adjoining slums and this serves as an eye pleasing water body,..

What Bandra youth from the poorer and middle class section of society really need in Bandra West is a good swimming pool and I am sure both our BJP leaders should try to implement it ,, It is one contribution they will  earnestly be remembered for ,,