The Karamchaari Gang Carter Road Valentine's day

These kids from areas like Mulund Vikhroli but certainly none from Carter road were cleaning the Carter road beach diligently collecting plastic other harmful materials bottles cans etc which they will hand over to the BMC and forgive my cheek n jowl I thought the lazy BMC might just throw it back in the sea.

And this is how our beautiful Mumbai kids celebrate Valentines Day paying tribute to nature I called them the Toilers of the Sea.

I also wondered on second thoughts would the kids of the tony upmarket Carter Road come down and do the same ...well are you kidding it's not their jobs ..they were having a ball at Otters Club

Happy Morning to all of you above all the members of the Karamchaari Gang from the Beggar poet of Bandra ..

The Kolis of Juhu Beach Fishing Village

I set out from my house at 6.15 am walking from my house to Linking Road Bandra till St Lawrence School I bought a water bottle and moved ahead and suddenly realized I had left my mobile at the shop where I had bought the water bottle I ran back like a mad man and he handed me my phone .
I realized after I completed my walk I should have carried my DSLR and my mobile power pack for the battery got exhausted I had shot a video and 150 stills .
At the beach Ganesha idols were lying strewn on the beach and I felt sad I did not shoot them ..Simply because my Gurus taught me never to hurt people or their beliefs even to prove a point ..don't shoot pictures to ridicule another man's rituals or customs .
I had completed over 10 km when I shot the koli images at the furthest end of the Juhu fishing village ...and it had taken me 2 hours and 30 minutes .
The Juhu beach is well maintained and great job and there were hordes of joggers walkers I met my dear Facebook friend Raju Thapar on his cycle but could not take a picture with him as my phone battery got over .
And this was a great regret specially when I walked back towards the Mayur Mahal end of Juhu Beach this beach facing bungalow was famous for film shoots .
I could have walked home from the Kali temple end on the beach but I pushed myself further taking directions from the locals thus bypassed the entire Gazdar Bandh and reached the Danda shoreline .
I crossed the creek and rediscovered Khar Danda village the Ram Mandir the 150 year old Arab Shah Baba Dargah and came out near the Danda fish Market end moved on to Carter Road Chimbai Waroda Road and finally Bandra Bazar Road ..and I was not tired or panting I had tested my endurance level a small bottle of water and some Monaco biscuits.
I will now make this trip again with my camera and try to walk till Versova. Hopefully.
All the pictures of this walk I have posted at Flickr .

My 20 Km Walk From Bandra Bazar To Juhu Beach And Back

Completed 20 km Walk This morning from Bandra reclamation to Juhu beach Hinduja bunglow end back to Bandra Bazar via Khar Danda Carter Road ..it took me about 4 hours non stop ..no halt just water and a pack of Monaco biscuits ..could not document my return walk as the mobile phone battery got over at Juhu beach .

Will our erstwhile dynamic PM Modiji visit Bandra Bazar Road after inaugurating the Bandra reclamation Art Gallery

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After the Inauguration of the Art Gallery at Bandra reclamation will our dynamic PM Modiji visit Bandra Bazar Road to congratulate BMC H ward for the great work they are doing in garbage management ..promoting the essence of his pet theme Swach Bharat.

Even God Cant Save Muslims From Muslims

fatwa fucked
from asshole
to eternity
he can never
ever be free
caught in
the vortex
of religious
hate bigotry
exhumed from
the grave humiliated
in death...in his next
birth a muslim he would
not want to be ,,,

was he  a sunni wahabi or a brailvi
now an empty hole in a cemetery

a sleeping soul robbed of all humanity

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Travesty of a Mothers Day ..

begging invoking
a stone deaf god
in the hearts of
man but none
hear her plea
a mother
held captive
by a cosmic
force in a
vicious grip
no more free
she lost her
youth her
beauty
lost all
her illusions
her dreams
her hope
mother of
two children
she lost her
humanity
her husband
a lazy drunkard
good for nothing
neglect apathy
forces her to beg
misplaced charity
a wife a mother
to be or not to be

i tried to shoot her
inner angst her emotions
but all i shot was her humility

Kashmiri Beggar searching for Hope in Mumbai

 I have shot him earlier and he saddens me limping begging away from his home in the Valley in the lonely heartless streets of Bandra.

What made him come to Mumbai to beg ..why did he choose Mumbai over Delhi thousands of miles away. I did not ask him he begs in silence .

Alone perhaps he has a family at the the camp near Bandra East where I am told the Kashmiri migrants live in make shift tents .

And such is life of a migrant in the city of dreams called Mumbai .

I have been documenting these migrant s since a very long time now ..most of them are Muslims so why is the government silent on this issue of the people of Kashmir
Why are they not trying to find out the cause and why are they not taking action both center and state .