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The Gash Of Faith – 119 viewsDate: 03/05/2006 Time: 10:40 PM Visits: 25
The Gash Of Faith
I dont see anything..sometimes you need an inner heart in your inner eyes to see somethings.. you are so into yourself that you wont know the sound of a heartbeat that tremulously beats for you..and you are so arrogantly into yourself you wont even know that at the trembling door of your securedly locked door stands a love in a paupers clothing....a poor beaten, terribly knocked around man, and I can see the name plate on the door.. its the right door..and the right name too..depleted oriental love for an american woman...a wronged man at the right door,
Well sorry I talk to myself not much of a chat room man..
This is a forehead cut severely .. but rose water and a bandage and the guy will cut himself again at the same spot.
I had shot pictures of two events one at bazzar road and the other at Almeida park.. and thealmeida park one I simply aborted I was too tired and taken a shia family home to meet my wife..and after they left I stayed behind...
Buzzwords: american woman, ashura, dont see anything, wronged man
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zanjeer on child – 174 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 04:51 AM Visits: 220
zanjeer on child
i could not get the shot of the zanjeer but it is a soft hit on the childs back,, and it is the first time i have seen it,,,
Buzzwords: child zanjeer, moharram, shia
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the mannat.. – 143 views Date: 11/14/2005 Time: 04:44 AM Visits: 163
the mannat..
mannat is a vow taken before the child is born..and safe that the parents will perform the kama on his forehead.. or a hit of the blades on his back.. folks may not agree with this custom..but it exists all the same and in hyderabad it flourishes..and i have never given my pictures to the indian press...nor app nor reuters..
never needed to.. and dont sell my pictures this is my mannat or vow for the greater good of seeing my world through the window of my blog..and buzznet and if i was a bit younger and if i did get a kid i would have called him.. buzzz ..pronounce it buss whick in urdu means enough...
Buzzwords: buzz, kolkatta, mannat, moharram, shia
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childs play – 176 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 04:17 AM Visits: 83
childs play
the sheer bravado of kids during moharram gets me great pictures but all this mostly happens in the night and very fast and i use two cameras.. and i wont mention the camera that i abuse and mention...nikon will die and another brand will be cannonized and beatified..
Buzzwords: cannonized, kolkat, moharram, nikon will die, shia
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the tragedy of pain – 126 views Date: 11/14/2005 Time: 04:10 AM Visits: 78
the tragedy of pain
this is the back that was scourged being cleaned with rose water and nothing else.. no anti septic nothing..
Buzzwords: kolkatta, moharram, rose water, shias
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moharram in kolkatta – 148 views Date: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:55 AM Visits: 24
moharram in kolkatta
This was my favorite and there are times while shooting pictures loke this i am constantly crying and there are times i just want to throw my camera bag snatch one of thes guys zanjeer and slash myself and i hit like a crazy man.. and go in a trance not knowing anything and have to be controlled by 6 or 7 people when they snatch the zanjeer from me thats why i try to befriend someone who will take care of my camera bag,,and return it back to me..and what the sufis do is chicken shit compared to this,,,this is real.. no tricks no nothing a 1400yrs old pain..of the martyrdom of hazrat imam hussain.
Buzzwords: kolkatta, martyrdom of imamhus..., shias moharram
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MATAM E HUSSAIN – 151 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:45 AM Visits: 42
MATAM E HUSSAIN
Another scene in kolkatta.. and not a single picture have i printed.. or shown to any one but they were to be greminated on buzznet,,,a documentary presentaton of a faith,,of the shias..
Buzzwords: kolkatta, moharram, shias
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Karte Hain Matam Haram Abbas Ka – 172 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:39 AM Visits: 156
Karte Hain Matam Haram Abbas Ka
This is another chant for the brave brother of imam hussain called hazrat abbas alamdar...and he was very fiery..and was almost possesed qualities of his father hazrat ali the cousin of the prophet and his son in law married to bibi fatima the prophets only daughter..
Buzzwords: hazrat abbas, hazrat ali, kolkatta, moharram, shia
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razor blade matam – 185 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:27 AM Visits: 80
razor blade matam
This guy was so intense and with his intensity he would make great villain in a Bolly wood film..I never got talk to him as I am on the move and I stayed in a seedy hotel near Canning street.
But Moharam gives me a chance to travel for three days of Moharram,,and most of the Maulanas who come from Mumbai and
Lucknow know me so this helps in getting the necessary help/
of shooting various events that I am guided by them o go and shoot..
Buzzwords: moharram, mualanas, mumbai., shias
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ya hussain – 214 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:17 AM Visits: 51
ya hussain
This guy was one of the tallest maatamdars I met and I shot quite a few pictures and Kolkatta is a very bonding place for the small closely knit shia community..safdarbhai munna bhai and and their family really took me around including safdars son.saif..
Buzzwords: kolkatta, matamdar, moharram, shias
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I AM BACK – 255 viewsDate: 11/14/2005 Time: 03:09 AM Visits: 86
I AM BACK
This is a scene in Kolkatta during Moharram,and I had gone there for the first time..I did not know any one but as I entered the fray I found a lot of people knew me and I too scourged myself and kolkatta is a very intense place.. the guys do chest matam and use razor blades..I knew guys who used doctors scalpel..I have never done this on my chest.. never had the urge..I beat my chest and chant Ya Hussain.. but most of the time I am shooting..and I have met some great guys who have held on to my camera bag while I cut myself,,with my zanjeer.
Buzzwords: kolkatta, moharram, razor blades, shias, zanjeer
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Moharram in Kolkatta – 329 views Date: 11/14/2005 Time: 05:00 AM Visits: 194
walking barefeet on snow..
my last post on this series of moharram in kolkatta ..and this was all on the 10th of moharram or ashura..and on the same day in the night i move out of kolkatta.. the chelum or the 40th day i went to hussaintekri jaorah.. and i had decided to walk barefeet on snow in kargil ladakh before i came to buzznet this is my mannat.. unless the almighty decides differently and i end up in some other place and it is quie a coincidence that i have been dreaming snow for past month and a half...
Buzzwords: kargil, kolkata, ladakh, shias moharram
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