Thursday, November 15, 2018

My Chhath Puja Documentary 2014 Juhu Beach















As a Muslim and as a hobbyist photographer I have shot Hinduism showcased it as a Message of Universal Peace .
My  only aim as an Indian is is to see Hindu Muslim amity...
Jai Chhath Maiya

This my tribute to Sun God and his daughter Shasti.

And my tribute to the Biharis of Mumbai.

#chhathpuja2014 #juhubeach #firozeshakir

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hon5HLGMoQ

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Fake News. the only news




This world
where hate dominates
in all the news..
dividing people
of all caste color
community..
a thought
misused
creating animosity
mental torture abuse
warmongers
warlords
create fake News
to diseminate what
they choose..
madmen holding a noose
a war loving prince
a murdered journalist
a famine stricken country
the world watches amused
the innocent in jails of Turkey
battered and bruised.
so whom does one accuse

if you accidentally mention CNN
the president looses his fuse

Chhath Puja 2018 Juhu Beach





















For years I have been shooting the Chhath Puja I was introduced by this feast thanks
to Mrs and Mr Shattrughan Sinha and Mr Sanjay Nirupam,

All my images are at Flickr and my videos are at YouTube

I am the only Muslim shooting Hinduism as a message of Universal Peace




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Monday, November 12, 2018

Being on Facebook does not pay





A regressive platform
the poetry of my heart says
for posting a picture of a madman
lying nude on the street no frontal
nudity no sexual implications no
perversion I a man who does not
post Porn was banned for 3 days
I contested the ban but they showed
me no grace I have decided to move
out of Facebook.. give up the chase
only Flickr and Twitter as my base
almost 10 years at Facebook..
as a photographer are street poet
a story teller my humility attacked
instead of praise..
dear Mr Marc Zuckerberg..
it was not like this always..
I followed Facebook terms
your rules of the book
I embraced.

But I have decided to retreat from FB
without any trace..

Good bye my Facebook friends fans
followers..

My Facebook page..
I finally stand erased
embalmed in oblivion
as I present my pain
my remorse my angst
unfortunate case

Thanking you all for
mentoring me guiding me
helping me I have no other
phrase.. soul made of iron
but humans feet made of clay.

Sunday, November 11, 2018

The Kettle and the Vessel




the kettle and the cooking vessel
in their spare time were having a chat
 the state of our politics of tit for tat
 political parties fighting among
themselves for the poor common
man nobody bats politicians
who came to serve the nation
 living in huts hovels now live
in mansions princely towers
 lavish flats to appease
the industrialists for forest
 lands they conspire with
 rogue hunters to kill wildcats
 destroying forever tigers habitat
 offering Acche din 15 lakhs in
your  bank account is the format ..
dance of democracy with thugs of
 Hindustan corruption inflation
 they promise to combat
 once they win the elections
 they crush the common man
under the door mat.. infighting
 among the higher echelons
 conniving bureaucrats ..
building statues instead of
 building infrastructure
building state of art schools
 colleges hospitals this is our
 political stand people dying
 everyday on railway tracks
but we have to show the world
 we have the bullet train from
Mumbai to Ahmedabad
our success and stats

 Finally progress development
 totally forgotten changing names
 of Muslim sounding cities
Faiizabad becomes Ayodha
  Pryagraj new name of Allahabad

Unable to build the Ram Mandir as
they were busy with cow lynchings
 ghar wapsi 4 years gone down
the drain just like that ..

2019 is not about wining or losing ,,
a fragmented opposition each one
wondering as PM who will bell the cat ...

Saturday, November 10, 2018

The New Flickr




My Stats at 4.44 pm today now The rejuvenated path to new

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The Happiest Man in the World Lives In Bandra -The Naked Ape







demonetization did not touch his soul
a thought that sinks in he was never
scarred by Modijis political fatwa
on the surface or from within .
he lives in own garden of Eden
not bothered about the Christian
original sin..blissful in his madness
he has no kith or kin ..beneath the
layer of his illusions lies his second skin
he has nothing absolutely nothing to
lose or win..within the corridor of his
convulsive thinking mind his soul is
on a spin..life is hope lying forgotten
in a recycling bin .the police might pick
him up send him to a beggars home
or a lunatic bin..in a broken bottle of
life is a lucky Djinn..searching for a God
who is Aladdin..a withering flesh a
corrugated skin..a fish out of water
without gills or fins ,,

dedicated to the common man  a poem seed that in my thought process set in..we dont always end what we begin..

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