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St Josephs Chapel and East Indians Of Bandra West – 37 viewsDate: 03/01/2006 Time: 12:28 AM Visits: 78
St Josephs Chapel and East Indians Of Bandra West
This is small chapel in the Bazzar .. Bandra market Road next to the Khoja Shia Mosque and it belongs to the Mount Carmel Parish. and it has seen good days .. it surely has but when I see it I realise
even this chapel where the original East Indian Settlers knelt and prayed and discussed the weather as they were fisher folks and the weather was the most important subject in their lives ..their loved ones went to fish and carried their nets, through the Bandra Fort or through the bylanes of Chimbai where on the beach their boats lazed in the sun and named after their loved ones or Mary Magdalene,Star of Jesus,Rock of Peter ,
And some boats eye pleasingly painted at the Band Stand.. and the faithful stick in hand limping with their mates on thewinding steps and the slope that led to the Baslicca of Mount Mary, and Fr Leslie Ratus with a motley group talking and joking, and Fr Stephen Nazereth guitar in hand strumming away a new note and the smiles on the young Elvis Preslys and Tom Jones, and Engleberts., and Cliff Richards,and the Holy Spirit above theit heads dancing and romping in joy.
And death accompanied the Fisher Folks too..and the rosaries for their safe return,the Angelus,the Novenas, the Genuflections, the Special Mass for favors granted and Peter the fishemans good haul., and Jerome and the stork that had visted his house and baby Priscilla,, and mother Crispin recuperating, and the smell of dried Bombay ducks, the courtyard littered with pickled raw mongoes in water, the famous East Indian masalas and the labouring Marathi women hammering away and tears in the eyes and a record playing "Once you see my darling.Riya Riya Row. and little kids skipping ropes, and the bully with the top dancing on his palm as he shows of his skill and his black and blue half open weepy eye...and secretly pining for ..her name begins with S.
And the hulla hoops and those elastic shrinking waists, and on the porch Uncle Wilfrid talking about the women he slept as a merchant navy guy working for PNO, Cunard Lines ..English passenger ships, and showing his scar when he was caught in the bed with the whore of a captains wife, and sips of Cashew feni. dried bombils, and sorpotel and vindaloo attacking the nostrils.. and Aunty Betty screaming from inside.. "Wilfrid stop bullshiiting that scar is when I went to burn your balls for trying to fuck the maid servant.." and orchestrated laughter.. and more drinks.. and I have tears in my eyes I see old Bandra and this dilapidated Chapel and in this derelict weeping away like me lies the laughter of Aunty Betty and the bullshitting of Uncle Wilfrid..and of an ethos of Bandra from the eyes of a Colaba Wode House Cathedral .childhood.
Yes I am not a Bandra Boy..I came to Bandra in the 80S..and my wife Afshaan joined me 21nov 1986 and this was a company flat and I worked for a slave driver of a heartless fucked boss called Kishore Bajaj and the shop was Badasaab.. a filmy Boutique.
And seeing the St Josephs Bazzar Roadd Chapel..all I can say.
Thank you..Father your house too needs repairs..and Botox shots and a cosmetic face lifts..
thus spake Firoze Shakir.. A Shia Muslim..Photographerno1
Dhartiputra..Dhartiputra means son of the soil,,,UnSoiled..Soul oF a Man..
Buzzwords: badasaab, band stand, bandra west, chimbai, firozeshakir, mount mary
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St John Evangelist – 20 views
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St Ignatius Loyola – 27 views
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St Francis Assisi – 18 views
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St Benedict – 17 views
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St Anthony at Holy Name Cathedral – 13 views
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St Andrews Church Bandra – 50 viewsThis too is taken from an opening in the iron doors of the locked church.. and from here we moved to Mount Mary..
Tags: st andrews church
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ST ANDREWS CHURCH – 25 viewsDate: 09/29/2005 Time: 02:23 AM Visits: 91
ST ANDREWS CHURCH
THIS IS AN EXQUISITE CHURCH.. AND HAS WON A HERITAGE AWARD.. MY BEST FREIND FR DREGO HAS BEEN TRANSFERRED FROM
HERE AND THE GUY WHO USED TO SELL CANDLES AND WATCH ME SHOOT DIED A FEW MONTHS BACK.. SOMETIMES I WONDER IF GOD PLAYS RUSSIAN ROULETTE EVERY TIME HE COMES AFTER DOING THE REPAIRS TO HIS PROPERTY... THAT HIS OLD DISCIPLE SATAN LOVES...TO BLOW LIKE THE WOLF.. AND THE 3PIGS STORY.
SO WHAT DOES GOD DO ON HIS SUPER CYBER COMPUTER,,,
FEEDS THE PASSWORD... HUMANITY..WHOS FAVORITE TODAY...
WHO TO ADD TO FAVORITES...OR LETS TROUBLE THEM SLIGHTLY WITH A FEW POETIC COMMENTS OF UNPOETIC JUSTICE...
HORRENDOUS TO THINK FURTHER,, AND WHEN GOD GETS PISSED,,, GOD SAVE YOU... FROM HIS PISSING CLOUD BURSTS..
SATAN OF COURSE ADDS TO THE CONFUSION... WITH HIS HAND MAIDENS KATERINA AND RITA... AND THE BLAME GAME GOES ON AMONG THE SUPER POWERS.
AND NOW FOR THE RECORDS.. I HAVE NEVER WRITTEN A SINGLE WORD BEFORE I CAME ON THE NET NOT EVEN POETRY.. IF YOU CAN CALL IT...DRIBBLE.A LITTLE MORE THAN SINGLE WORD IS MY SIGNATURE..VITOFERRARI... BUT TO THE UNREAD IT APPEARS AS FIROZE SHAKIR,
ALL THIS BURSTING OF THE DAM IS BECAUSE OF FAN ART REVIEW
I HAVE GONE OVER 5000.. SO WILL TELL YOU IN THE NEXT PICTURE
Buzzwords: 3pigs, cloud bursts, fanart review, fr drego, humanity., rita, russian roulette.kat..., vitoferrari.satan
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st andrews church – 21 viewsDate: 10/02/2005 Time: 06:40 AM Visits: 128
st andrews church
this is a heritage church surrounded on three sides by a small cemetry.. and this is on a sea front fishing village the expeditious east indians... the earliest inhabitants of mumbai..these pictures were taken during one ot the feast days and all the heirlooms of this church were on display.. and also the retirement of the parish priest fr peter drego.bang opposite the andrews church is the yacht restaurant... an early morning bar where guzzlers like me during my alcoholism would come for the utara.. which means the first drink to remove the traces of the earlier nights binge..
hands shaking.. bile eating its way out in an acidic way would come and lodge in the gullet to taste the first drop and gallvanise.. the body for the rough weather ahead...i remember when my father died i was pissed out of my head.. and reached the cemetry.. more dead than my father..its been almost 5 years.. and thankfully the dark scary nights... and the more scarier mornings are a thing of the past... the wounds the scars... on my familys consience...
are very much alive.. they havent forgiven me....nor forgotten...
the return of the relapse worries them... and me too...
Buzzwords: alcoholism, guzzlers, heirlooms, peterdrego, utara
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Spiritual Alignment – 17 views
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Soldiers of God – 20 viewsDate: 01/03/2006 Time: 01:08 AM
Soldiers of God
This at the courtyard of St Peters Church at Hill Road Bandra.
And these kids wanted to give all that had for the shot...Iwanted just a few kids and they just kept piling on.. and Ithink these dare devils are really Children of God..
Buzzwords: bandra, soldiers of god, st peters church
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So You Are Photographerno1? – 34 viewsAnd I was at Hill Road , shot this picture and came and opened my shop at about 10am, and this ends the morning session of Mount Mary pictures.
I shot pictures of Mount Mary again in the rains from a shelter but I dont know how it has been shot.
This is my last post I go home...
And Dogs do understand human emotions...of photographers I mean.
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