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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..

Thank you Walid Hakimi for your kind words ,,

I would rather be a Hindu than a Salafi like you ''

His comment on my post at You Tube Forum

 You are just trying to gain fame by using belief and emotions of people and broadcasting casting even things against Islam , you are playing with your Emaan, those madari malang , and those Hijra dance Party and these shrine “bidha” with these miss guided sufis who does not represent Islam, please seek a good Muslim scholar and see I doubt you may not be good Muslim or even a Muslim please go and Do Kaleema again please brother you seriously need help. Otherwise if you are not a Muslim by heart and you are talking rubbish to gain fame and make money with youtube  then you are definitely a Munafeq  (hypocrite) May Allah Guide us brother!!

Ode to Don MacAskill CEO Flickr

Our primary motivation for the acquisition was that we love photographers and we love photography. Flickr is home to some of the world's best photographers and photos. It just felt like a natural fit with our mission and passion, and we're thrilled the have the opportunity to open Flickr's next chapter.Don MacAskill

Flickr under Yahoo
Oath Verizon
was floundering seriously ill..
as a photo management site
had become run of the mill
It had due to bad Yahoo Flickr
Customer Care lost all its
Old Skool Goodwill..
Until enter Smug Mug
who took over Flickr
raised the bill ..double
the amount before
any steps to Flickr
revival were fulfilled
voices in the Flickr
forum got angry raucous
shrill.who wants a placebo
as a curing pill
being a pro member
since 11 years I
have hopes that Flickr
will rise like a phoenix
thanks to the vision
of Don MacAskill
so lets wait chill
our negativity
on the soul of our
illusions let it not
spill..

That Flickr is part of
SmugMug I am thrilled

Grandfathered accounts
Free Flickr accounts
sound of a bugle a new drill
1000 images ..a mountain
turns into a molehill

for those of my Flickr
friends dead and gone
Fred Miller
Jeff Lamb
Marc Akemann
Flickr memories
As Daffodils

Ode to a YouTubeTroll Mr Noor

You Tube Troller Sufi Shia hater Noor you seem to be misinformed you abuse me insult me on this platform as a Muslim you definitely need to reform. I know you were born in a sewer a gutter snipe a besharam nalayak Harami kutte ka pilla product of a faeces swamp a better act you need to perform I curse you a million times you Wahhabi Salafi serpent one day your bastion of hate by the Goodness of God will be stormed.. I have blocked you reported you.. Malang Hater a shitless body without from. you thought I will chicken out ..remain silent a thought you need to transform I am sure you cant read English as your mind your soul satanic deformed ... one day you will rot in a jail in a prisoners uniform... the words of my poem will keep you comfy and warm


posted at youtube community tab..

Yes I am a Good Muslim

posted at you tube community tab

I am perhaps the only Muslim photographer promoting Hindu Muslim amity .
Promoting Hinduism as a Message of Universal peace ..

This inherent quality of living in mutual coexistence tolerance comes from being born in India ..

My maternal grandmother late Nazmi Begum widow of Late Daroga Nabban sab 
 descendant of poet Mir Anis refused to take the train to Pakistan preferring to live in
penury  with her 3 children ..one of them my mother at Pata Nala Old Lucknow.

So I am not just a Muslim I am an educated Muslim a self made man..respecting all
 faith religion spirituality .
Why should I abuse you if you follow another religion ..and the Muslim who abuses me regularly on this platform shows his ignorance his poor neglected parentage ..his background and his radical indoctrination and the filth of his mind and ancestry..

I dont hide my background behind a meshed skullcap..

I wear a turban of Indianness with pride ..

Bandra Local Press and Gambhir Singh of Manipur

But before I continue Happy Dasshera to all of you ..

I have a pain within me and I thought of bringing it out to exorcise it ..

I shoot chronicle Bandra ..where I live my urban chaotic backyard and in this documentation I have no agenda no politics I have been graciously adopted by Bandra .
The Gen Next my daughter my granddaughters Marziya and Nerjis are born in Bandra ..in a way they endorse my connection to Bandra .

My Bandra is in all its humility Bandra Bazar Road .
I came to live here after the 93 riots I lived as a nomad at Pali Naka Veronica Street Ranwar and finally De Monte Street .

When I shot the street video of alcoholic vagrant migrant Gambhir Singh I knew nothing about Manipur ,,he in his alcoholic stupor made me aware of Manipur forced it poetically on my consciousness .

I wont go into details my Gambhir Singh YouTube video went viral and Gambhir Singh became the biggest story ..it was a very simple story down to earth story of a lost mans reunion with his birthplace his family friends well wishers of Manipur .
He was saved by the love of the Manipuri people they collectively brought him back to Khumbohg Imphal .thanks to Patsoi police station and the officers Priyobratan Singh Yumnam and officer Amitabh Singh Arambam.
And Bandra Police Station .

The Gambhir Singh news spread like wild fire I gave interviews to online news agencies Der Spigel others .
I gave interviews to national news from Bandra Police station that helped in his well being and finding him.

I gave interviews from my house late in the night..
I was not hunting for a few minutes fame but Gambhir Singhs story to some extent was my own story too I was a incorrigible alcoholic for many years ..my wife and kids fought with my demon and pulled me ashore away from Yacht Canara and Janta .
Its been over 25 years I have not touched a drop of booze.

Fr Jaun a Christian Jesuit priest from St Peter Church Bandra helped cleanse me and Jesus and the Church have been part of my growing up..I am 68 years old almost .

Anyway after Gambhir Singh left I spoke to one of the local news of Bandra he did not do the story he was out of station I think if he did give it a mention I am not aware .

But what hit me the hardest was the other local news I spoke to the editor I know him since I came to Bandra in 1983 .

He was obnoxiously unmoved by the Gambhir Singh story ,,he said Gambhir Singh was not from Bandra and when I told him about the news of him online and in regional national papers ..he literally slapped me with a distasteful remark,, Gambhir Singh is a drunkard .

So what was Mary Magdalene Jesus transformed her from a prostitute to a Saint .

I am a Muslim bought up in Church environment I learnt Compassion I learnt humility humanity at home and through my Christian priestly mentors .

From that day till the present I broke of all ties with him.. he is not my role model he is just a hollow conceited man living in a world of his own biased imagination.

This is the truth irony of the local press of Bandra .

I think we do a better job than them as photographers chroniclers documentarists .

I am Christian in more ways than one and Bandra made me that and this is not about religion but culture and upbringing..

Thankfully I am not a skull cap Miya I have a skull and I need not cover it with narrow mindedness .

You will never see my posts pictures poetry or stories in newspapers .

I stay the fuck away from them.

Happy Morning ..

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