My new series I am compiling as a slideshow at my YouTube channel..
Lucknow is the city of my birth I was born here in my grandfather Late Daroga Nabban Sabs house at Imliwali Gali Kankar Kuan Pata Nala .
However I have lived my early years in Mumbai my parents lived in a shanty in the fetid slums of Kurla .
Later we shifted as tenants of family of Late Nawab Kashmiri at Khatau Bhuvan Wodehouse Road Colaba .
On my part I went to Lucknow for short visits with my mother in my childhood .
My mother was connected to her mother Nazmi Begum who was alive that time.
So my vision of Lucknow all those years has been Nakhas Wazirganj Aminabad Kashmiri Mohalla .
I shot the Lucknow streets when I came to shoot Moharam I would shoot old memories I think those days I was the only photographer shooting the royal nawabi bats at the Bauli Bara Imambara .
This picture is of a mentor Mr Anil Risal Singh sab of Lucknow eminent fine art photographer I met him through photographer historian poet doyen late Mr P C Little .
This picture was shot by my wife at my inlaws tenanted house at Hashim Building Nakhas .
Anil Risal Singh sab I began interacting with him when I began salon photography with both my Gurus Mr KG Maheshwariji and Prof BW Jatkar .
I am also connected with Bhupesh Little ...
And a new Flickr friend Anandmoy Chatterjee .
So I will be posting quaint pictures of old Lucknow bylanes forgotten monuments.
I shot Hazratganj Aminabad with Anandamoy .

Stay safe ...I have not visited Lucknow for many years now my Wife is from Lucknow ..my two granddaughters Marziya and Nerjis have a Lucknow ancestry .
My moharam series at Instagram has ended .

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This was shot 3 years back this is a Sufi shrine near Kalyan up in the mountains of Malangad .
There is no access for cars or two wheelers you have to leave your ego at the foothills and climb up to reach this Holy Shrine .
Two more shrines are on the way to the main shrine ...First Bhaktawar Baba next Sultan Shah Baba .
It takes about two hours to reach the top there are food joints tea stalls on the way .
The unique part about this Sufi shrine it has Khadims from the Hindu community ..Muslim and Hindu caretakers standing next to me is my friend Abhijeet Ketkar he is one of the Khadims his family has been part of this Sufi Hindu ethos of peace hope humanity .
Last I went there was in 2019 due to the pandemic and my bypass surgery I did not venture ..I used to climb barefeet to this Holy Shrine .
A lot of followers of this Sufi Saint are transgender hijras ...also crossdressers.
I shot the Urus and the Palki procession for many years .
This year I am still not fully recovered..I will give it a miss ...
My lodging boarding is taken care by Abhijeet...he has a great cosmic bonding with me .

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My new series on my Youtube channel on Hinduism that I have documented feasts festivals in my city ..The Kumbh Melas Khanakhya Juna Akhara Kinnar Akhara Shahi Snan Ling Kriya .
Documented Aghoris both at Khamakhya and Kashi.
This was a Flickr album over hundred thousand images that I managed to download into smaller sub albums .
I am a Muslim but I shot all this with the vision of a Hindu my camera that is the third eye of Shiva .
Do check it out ...
Stay safe .
Om Namo Narayan


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