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Documenting Hinduism as a Message of Universal Peace

text posted on my You Tube video

 

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My parents migrants from UP Lucknow lived in the slums of Kurla early 50s my father was in the tailoring business he got a room in a servants quarters of veteran actor late Nawab Kashmiri at Khatau Bhuvan Wodehouse road my father worked at N Swamy Rao near Colaba bus depot .. my mother was an asthmatic she hired a Marathi lady for taking care of us she stayed at Military quarters with her son Tulsi we were told to call her Aiee which means mother so our upbringing was not corrupted with hate or bigotry my friends were Anglo Indians Parsis Jews and Buddhist..my schooling thanks to Nawab Sabs daughter was at Private European school of Mrs Lester her sisters June and Marjorie later I went to Holy Name High School .

I suffered huge loss during the Hindu Muslim riots politically engineered during 1993 ,,but I have no hate animosity with my Hindu brethren as a photographer besides being a Muslim I have documented Hinduism as a message of universal peace the pandemic has destroyed my business and health is deteriorating.. due to diabetes ..I had a bypass surgery sponsored by Swabhiman I am alive ..Jai Maharashtra.

 

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Uploaded on February 26, 2022
Taken on September 8, 2007