I am street photographer a beggar poet .. I shoot misery cavorting with hope I shoot original content. I am Shia Sufi Hindu all in One
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
Flickr
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
Flickr
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 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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