I got up early , but was not in a mood to shoot this event , as I was not feeling to well and going to town barefeet was bringing out negatives excuses. but I put everything aside and went to shoot this event I am shooting since 2004 .
I took a train and than a share a cab from Grant Road to Banganga via Girgaum Chowpatty ..Teen Batti and began shooting the barbers ,,the North Indian Brahmins come here to pay tribute to their dead ancestors ..they has a ceremony of religious tonsure and than prayers on the banks of the Banganga and the Visarjan of the puja items on leaves .
I shot the rituals I shot from a boat thanks to the volunteers who know me and than shot the entire tank barefeet later I left with Pratik shooting the beggars and the barbers again..
This is my new set at Flickr.com and I survived a serious accident along with my friend Pratik Koli.. I was blessed by the Hijra who visits Banganga every year .. and than took a train back home from Grant Road.. I met my friend Bipin Kokate and Yogendar ,,,
A few barbers from Bandra were here too, but they were here since last night..
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This morning Pratik Koli and I had a miraculous save at Banganga we had finished shooting Pitru Paksh and Pratik said he would drop me at Grant Road on his bike , I was riding pillion , a media photographer stopped his bike to shake hand and Pratik lost his balance on the moving bike on the slope , it crashed , lucky I had my turban which took the impact , the bike was on my leg..but a force did not let it crush me or Pratik , all the Bhaiyyas came running pulled us up.. we had survived , no scratch nothing,,my camera round my neck was unhurt too ,, we both could not believe it ,,, it was the most unsettling incident ,,, I knew my leg was gone I was barefeet and I am a diabetic.. we later had a cup of tea close to the station and thanked our stars ,,,and Ganga Maiya of Banganga ,,,
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