An Ode To A Guru of All Good Things

I took a vow

I will see Laxmi

And Die

It was not Ganja

Nor Charas but I

Was High

Halfway between

Earth And Sky

I am you

You are me

A sound replied

Disembodied

Silently cried

Ardh Nari

Nareshwar

The Great

Divide

 

A poem gave birth

seeking hope in a

Womb to hide

 

Shivas Chariot

A Cosmic Ride

 

Androgynous

Anomalous

both sides

 

Could Humility

Be The Handmaiden

of Pompous Pedagogic

Pride ..Insolence's Bride

 

Guru of All Good Things

 

Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

Acharya Maha Mandleshwar Kinnar Akhara

Of Ardh Nari Nareshwar

 

Thanks to Laxmi and our friendship since late 80 s much before she became a transgender ..we were connected to Bollywood she was a dynamite of a dance instructor to celebrity film stars .

 

Later when she became a Hijra diva with her protection help I started documenting the Hijras of India the most sensitive documentary of their life struggle hardships and in homophobic society used abused hammered battered given a bad name by hijra impostors they had to fend for themselves ..

 

Thanks to the vision of Laxmi the life of the transgender is changing rapidly they are becoming a part of mainstream.. and the educated ones are getting good work no more begging dancing for a living or soliciting.

 

However I have disabled my hijra documentary from public I shot hijras from every walk of life .. jetsetting hijras nautch girl mujra hijras hijra actors beggar hijras hijra bawas hijra children hijra performers hijra bargirls ,,,and hijra married ladies living at tony posh Lokhandwala Andheri with their foster college going children..

 

I still shoot them it is only for myself..my other genre of poetry .. hijra poetry

Done