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The Kamatipura Hijdas Peela House Prostitutes
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This morning after all most two months I decided to to go to Kamatipura flea market, this is an open ground , 12th rd Kamatipura that transforms into a haven of thieves, this a flea market run by the Vagries of Gujrat, these are a second hand buyes of wares, from old Parsi houses, old bungalows, that will be dmolishe to give way to towers.
They buy the junk, peddle it on the floor on the open ground in Kamatipura.
Chor Bazar Kamatipura Flea Market Scenes I have a special gallery on my homesite
They have made good money, old paintings, cameras, parsi garas, lace,statues, amber, silver, gemstones, everthing from a pin to a marble elephant.
They are very calculative, shrewd , no ethis, their Goddess is Money, I wont say more than this or it will be held against me in a court of their law.
I have good friends, they all know me.
This morning as I got out of the cab , all the vendors were outside the compound, a severe loss for both the buyers the sellers.
The reason given was a new Boss had taken over the local cop station, so no business, to show that he means business.
The modus operandi is that all the agencies are in the pay, known as the Hafta system, to set up Friday shop..
So I moved away from , their desolate faces, walked towards the Chor Bazar flea market ,I had my loaded Nikon F100 too, I dont know what came over me, I took right turn closer to Dedh Gully 1 1/2 gully famous for buying your stolen shoes back that you lost at the temple or the mosque.
The gully or lane I entered is called Paheli Gully or No1 Gully, this is the most dreaded, notorious lane the citadel of the prostitute variety of Hijdas, in all my Hijda shooting life I had never been here at all.
I shot pictures, I must warn you my dress sense was atrociously of a Harlem American, I wore a ankle lenght coat in the worst summer heat, my Afghani Togs, my jewellery, my left handed jewellery a felt Havana hat, an orange scarf, my silver ornamental stick.
I was shit scared, a wounded hand , I walked towards two hijdas , sitting selling their wares, young, it was about 10 am, I greeted them , they looked me up and down, their hate towards my camera very visible, I told them I was searching for some Hijdas I had met at the Ganesh Visarjan, they feigned ignorance, uninterested, I requesed if I could take their pictures , they refused..saying they were new to the area , would get into trouble.
Now a pack of toy boy wolves ,saw me I approached them, told them I wanted to meet the Hijdas, I had shot at Visarjan time.
They directed me to a balding Hijda Guru called Zeenath, I walked up a narrow steps , shit scared, I reached the second floor met a bare breast balding Zeenath Hijda , they were having a Bhaichura Mata puja, she kept me standing I asked her to cover her torso so I could take her picture, she liked that, I had no flash so I shot it in available back light on a 50 mm lens , she told me not to shoot her chelas, I think this was a puja ceremony of initiation of a person into the Hijda fold, so they wanted to get rid of me.
She said go down I will meet you, on the way I saw Hijdas naked having a bath , they warned me with dire consequences, I placed my eyes at my feet and fled.
Below I met the Toy Boys, gave one of the better ones my shop visiting card there was a pretty hijda with them she also warned me not to take her picture , but on being told by the Toy Boys I meant no harm I took 2 shots.Than they told me a huge giant of a foreign photographer was here , they described Marc De Clercq to me .
Anyway I sat , realised that Zeenath Guru had made a popat out of me , so the Toy boys went up, they told me she had left.. The Hijdas are fierce of their privacy…the young Hijdas I saw bathing were the prettiest I had seen in the common Hijda toilet on the staircase.
This Hijda building is called Shankar Marwari Chawl, or lambi chawl, it is the longest concrete tenement shot several pictures..I walked to Chor Bazar..
I must tell you all this while I kept telling the Hijdas my proximity to Laxmi Narayan Tripathi,but they were not impressed,
From Chor Bazar I walked to Peela House near Alexandra cinema , the notorious area called Mumbai cages, here I shot pictures, was abused , cursed, but tried not to be scared.. I have given the roll for developing and scanning, you will see the pictures tomorrow,
From here I came to Colaba met my school mate Anil Shejale the webmaster of my school site HNHS.Finally took a cab, to catch up with my wife who had followed me later to town…
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