If The Mumbai Police Saw The World Through The Camera They Would See What I See

In Mumbai it is selective policing ,, if the erstwhile Bandra cops came on a photo walk with me they will see the various joints of the proliferating drugaddicts of Bandra ,,on the Bandra skywalk, beneath the skywalk near the Sunni  Station Road Mosque at the exit point near Slaughter House Compound and the main Bandra Juma Masjis near the dismantled escalator ,, did you know that the stupid creators of this public wasted taxpayers money built a escalator that was taken away piece to pierce by the drugaddicts and other scrap scavengers ,,

Why should the Bandra cops see all this they are busy catching innocent kids and beating them up,, but the real dreaded drugaddicts move about freely.

The main adda is behind the garbage bins of the entrance of the dirtiest filthiest ugly slums Shastri Nagar of Bandra ,, you can see them hidden from the public shooting drugs ,, but do the residents locals care ,, they are busy trying to run their homes with rising dal prices ,, standing for hours in a kerosene line ,, life is really really bad for the poor in the slums .

Cops are happy giving protection to those who were elected to protect us from criminals and insensitive bullying cops ,, and perhaps this segment of cops might be a minority but it is bad outsourcing .. measuring their chests height but not their inborn bias , negativity even their hate for Muslims and few other communities ..one CP goes another comes  like a musical chair .. but the attitude of humanity kindness hardly exists in police stations ,, you need a video to go viral to know what the public suffer at cop stations .

And I am not an activist , I have no issue with cops save what I see on the streets of Bandra,,and I dont morph or photo shop my images they are straight from the underbelly of street life that I shoot as a documentarist .. not for money or commercial gain.

I think if cops took up photography I am certain much will change provided they shoot what I shoot and not selfies with film stars and celebrity politicians ,

And finally so many years so many governments and no police reforms , same dingy police quarters ,,same apathy neglect .. I think our representatives should add the police to the Acche Din dreams and Sab Ka Sath Sab Ka Vikas .

Shooting Chehlum In Lucknow ,,2014

This was shot in Lucknow last year in color obviously , blood stands out as protest in color defying both space and time ,, though I have shot Moharam in Lucknow in BW too on Ilford Delta 100 ASA ,, It was my personal favorite but I dont shoot film anymore I prefer shooting color and than tweaking a few pictures BW ,, as my enduring efforts at fine art so to speak.

I dont wont ever use Photo Shop.

And Moharam in BW might look like a man inked for the wrong reasons .. in Mumbai inking is another political pastime ,, but shooting a mans bleeding in BW is inking his resolve his anger his pain that has lived since 1400 years .. along with the throaty chant of Ya Hussain.. it never ends it will never end ,,

Moharam Chehlum is the 40 day of the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain grandson of the Holy Prophet , and in memory of the Battle of Karbala with the Caliph of the Umayad Dynasty accursed Yazid,,

After Chehlum gets over the Shias celebrate Athvi when Moharam officially comes to an end ,,, the next day . or dawn the Shias celebrate the victory of Good over Evil burn effigies of the Killers of Imam Hussain .. and appesae the Mother of Imam Hussain Princess Zehra daughter of the Holy Prophet of Islam.

Th most prolific Athvi celebrations in mourning take place in Lucknow with the Chup Tazia and the burial of the same and a lot bloodletting at Kazmain..

The Anjumans from allover Lucknow come to the Roza of Imam Hussain at Kazmain... people come here do matam and cry, huge tears that I tried to shoot also in BW ,,,

But this year I might not be able to go to Lucknow for Chehlum and hope to be there for Athvi.. cutting my head with Baney Bhais anjuman on the streets ,,,

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal. ~Rumi

In All Humility I Am A Street Photographer ,,

what i see
i shoot
i poeticize
what my
cosmic eye
saw you have
no right to
criticize
i did not
borrow
your camera
your vision
your blinkers
nor your myopic
eyes ,,i am
merely a poet
a street photographer
in disguise ,,i try to
capture fleeting moments
in flight ,,i shoot color
i transform it as BW
my world in spectral light

The Sufi Cult of Sada Suhagin Mousa Suhagin..

The Sufi Cult of Sada Suhagin Mousa Suhagin..
Men who dress as women married to their Holy Saint ,,

The Beggars Of Nizamuddin Aulia Delhi

Now what text do you want me to post here .. this can never be Sab Ka Sath Sab Ka Vikas ,,,And yes they are all Muslim refugees on this heartless planet of pain suffering and doom.. I will poeticize their pain as pictures ,,,,

The Sufi Cult Of Sada Suhagin or Mousa Suhagin

The first time I met these spiritual crossdressers was at Chor Bazar Mumbai. I though they were eunuchs ,, the meeting at Chor Bazar was crazy ,, I met him at Paradise restaurant at Chor Bazar , his baithak was at Ajmer Sharif,.. he liked my silver ring .. I gave it to him, in exchange he offered me white plastic beads placed it round my neck.. barring the tawiz my mother put round my neck during my days of madness , the tawiz was Aytal Kursi.. but later I stopped wearing all tawaiz etc and this plastic beads given by the Sada Suhagin , gave me a terrible night, headache and drove me into a very dark mood ,, on a Friday I visited Chor Bazar (manically on Fridays only it was an obsession buying old camera books and artifacts,) I met the Sada Suhagin and returned the plastic beads ,, politely ,, I thanked him he gave me sardonic smile ,, I told him I was not ready ,,,for his gift as yet ,, but he told me your life will change in 2011 ,,, I was going through the worst period of my life from 2009 to 2010.
Cut to Haji Malang and I met this bearded Sada Suhagin , dressed in a ladies frock with lion mane and I shot him . his moods , I liked his smile I gave him money, but he too while leaving told me bluntly very soon you will become a Malang..and this was a few months before I actually became a Malang of the Madarriya order ...in Ajmer in 2011 .
So I have been fascinated with this order of Sufi men married with children and yet married to a higher spirituality, they dress groom themselves as women.. but not for sex or titillation like the ordinary crossdresser..who is mostly a homosexual.. here it is purity and pristine dedication of this Sufi ascetic s called Sada Suhagin .. this series too I have removed completely from public view.