My Message Sent To Facebook Help ..

I am on Facebook since a long time I post all my updates to friends none of my posts are marked Public,, I am a photo journalist blogger I shoot events rituals cultures and as diverse in India the country of my Birth.. I am a educated sane Muslim not a radical ,, I respect humanity I dont post Porn nor do I argue with people  when I was racially profiled deactivated my account several times here at Facebook.. I dont promote any product nor my Shia faith but I do shoot it .. and post pictures now if someone who had added me finds problem with them he should Unfriend me instead of reporting my pictures I deleted those pictures out of respect to all of you and I follow Facebook rules regulations but I am hurt terribly hurt ,, I mean who are these persons to censor what I shoot I dont shoot porn , or hurt communities all my timeline is at your disposable so if you find it inappropriate I am ready to abide by it ,, I mean if this persists I will delete my Facebook account .. this is mental torture and you should other wise also include the name of the person who reported it so I can remove him from my Friends circle ,, I mean why does he not read my profile before adding me ,,my profile is same be it Google Twitter Blogspot or Flickr where I post everything publicly ,,
Please review my account and guide me ,, I think one sided harassment is not fair at all.. if a person is a Wahabi Salafi radical Muslim he will definitely not like my Shia rituals or images so what am I to do..

Please read me seriously ,, as my problem could touch others ,, who may not be able to explain to you as vocally as I am doing it ,, I am 63 year old a grand father and a man of peace who shoots respects all religion Hinduism Judaism Shiasm Sufism and others..

Firoze Shakir .

I Found Poetic Solace Solitude At The British Residency Lucknow

I live in the most chaotic crazy part of old Lucknow on the main road of Bajaza Nakhas Victoria Street Lucknow ,, the house of my inlaws the Qazilbash .
My mothers house that belonged to my maternal grandmother Nazmi Begum widow of late Daroga Nabban sab decendant of poet Mir Anis at Pata Nala Thwai Tola was sold out by my uncle ,, so there is now nothing of my ancestry in Lucknow ,, my grandfather buried at Gufra Map and my grandma at the cemetry of Rani Malka Jahan I think.
My paternal grandmother Khurshed baji stayed at Wazir Ganj.. there is nothing there she is buried at Talkatora .

So I wander through the narrow lanes of old Lucknow shooting crumbling brick houses , old memories and shooting the streets of Nakhas Chowk.. and when I get sick and tired of all this I head to the British Residency among the ruins and the dead soldiers ,,I get lost in a world away from noise and nostalgia ,,

I can spend hours alone at the Residency reading the epitaphs ,, wondering about how thy lived and silently musing all this as pictures ,,,

I get mystical at 3 places at the Residency ,, the Imambargah , the Tomb of the Holy Sufi Saint Syed Kasim Shah baba and the Graves at the St Mary Cemetery..

And I have never come here with my wife ,, I will one day ,,

Man And Woman Locked Up In A Zoo

driven out from the garden of eden
because they were lovers  he was
a muslim she was a hindu.. now they
spend their entire life in isolation sad
silent segregated  for no fault of theirs
they have no clue awaiting ghar wapsi
back to their shanty to start life anew
a bond of togetherness they wish to
renew but the bhakts the mullahs trolls
wont let them get back to their life ,,
pain like bleeding flowers bestrewn
the poetry of life buried under a dune

Shut The Fuck Up Bhakts And Twitter Trolls

Posted at Facebook

I have had assholes on Manjultoons timeline trolling me viciously thinking maybe I am a dumb stupid Muslim and Anti Hindu because I had the guts to say Modijis juggernaut in Bihar stopped because of Dal Dadri and Delusions .The Bihari voter preferred jungle raj to anti tolerance and divisive hate politics. Did not get follishly carried away by the Gujrat model or Modijis Apocalypse Now oratory .And I am on Twitter since 2008 when it was less noisy not politically polluted as it is now .Just stupid Bhakts BJP trolls who want to choke your voice I am shocked at my moderations but calling me anti Hindu made me throw up all over my shirt front but the fuck up here or even on Twitter who reads a person's profile before attacking him I am a veteran on social media but I never used a platform to abuse another man's religion or faith or gender .
Happy Diwali I now go to shoot garbage because Swach Bharat of Modiji must first remove garbage in the minds of his Bhakts and the venomous poisonous teeth of his motormouths after that a round of Tennis and will miss my dear friend Fabian Namory.
Happy Morning to my Facebook friends for your love support guidance and constructive criticism .

Optional Title Empty Fucked Dabbas Make The Most Noise

Do Beggar Kids Dream

of going to school
instead of begging
on the streets with
a mother who has
had nothing to eat
humidity dust n heat
her tired feet a ritual
of begging everyday
she must repeat
but come what may
she wont accept defeat
on a friday in the morning
close to where i stay
in my lane mother n
child you will meet

the child is 3 year old now
najma who loves sweets

This Was Our Garbage Dump Shot In 2011 ,, Much Before Modijis Swach Bharat

This was the era of Ms Priya Dutt  MP and Mr Baba Siddiqui MLA Congress Party ,, and now in 2015 we have a new set of Bandra ministers Ms Poonam Mahajan MP and Advocate Ashish Shelar MLA both BJP .. our new custodians ,, though the civic corporator is Mr Tanvir Pate of the Congresas Party,,, I dont think he knows about this dump.. the most famous iconic dump of Bandra ,, photographers from all over the world come here to shoot this art form.. the smell , the urban chaos decay and the lilting reminder of mortality and morbidity ,,

My grandchildren got their first lessons in street photography shooting this garbage dump..it is one of its kind and it is prominently placed at Bandra Bazar Road once the heritage and crown of the Bandra Bazar gaothan.


This part of Bandra has gone to seed ,,more than 1200 images and over 80 videos renamed as a set Swach Bandra Bazar Road and Garbage porn.. it will always be here unless the Chicken market shifts to Vashi.. and Mutton and Fish and Buffalo or Buff Meat are banned too.


I call this the Temple of Garbage of the Lord of the Flies ,,young students of photography come here to shoot it too and I am waiting to do a fashion shoot here ,,,

Sadly the residents living here next to this dump hardly care a shit , instead they love and glorify it with dumping their own garbage too.. now we dont have a Mr Rishi Kapoor here , or this place would be as beautiful as Pali Hill..

At Bandra Bazar even the youth are stunted dwarfed and have aged seeing this garbage all their life ,, the slum kids come to play here , women scavengers come here to search for food , meat fish prawns ,,

There was a huge photo op by the BJP party to build a ladies toilet a bhumi pujan but it has yet to see the light of day.. BJP is the only party that promises the sky the moon and the stars ,, but leaves you with Thulla .

I voted for Progress and Development and frankly a Congress Free Bandra and despite the shortcomings of the BJP I will still vote for it as there is no other alternative this side of Bandra .. the Congress decimated demolished the ex ministers hardly come our end ,, The Am Admi party sent us Phiroze Palkiwala .. and we could have had a better choice with Mr Ayub Khan.. a sincere humble Bandraite by birth and not by choice ,,

So these are early morning stray thoughts as I go through my Flickr archives that disappeared for a few minutes last night causing sheer pain and trauma at the Flickr Forum..


My 355000 images came back ..miraculously ,, my entire wealth so to speak poetically and visually ,,

Think Flickr Think

this is happening first time in my life at flickr since 2007 ,, cant believe it 


think flickr think
my pictures all gone down the sink 

no trace no link 
my wife says go
 see a shrink 

was it because of 
modijis loss in bihar 
cows got inked 

+Marissa Mayer 

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