Bonded Labor in Karachi ..mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru ….and awazaru?

Posted on November 1, 2007
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I consider this photo a fantastic one because it catches the plight, hopelessness and face expressions of ‘be-zubaan’ (animals). Note the twig in master’s hand. Sad. I am however unsure if there are 4 monkeys or the photo is retouched to capture four instances of the same monkey. The road island in the background seems a bit disjointed.

‘mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru’ in Japanese means ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’. The source of this famous saying is a pictorial maxim on a door of the famous Tosho-gu shrine. The shrine is located in Nikko, Japan and door dates back to 17th century. The above photo reminded me of those ‘three wise monkeys’ (except here we have four). I named the 4th one awazaru because he looks pretty ‘awazar’ (bored).
Photo Credits: Abro.

12 responses to “Bonded Labor in Karachi ..mizaru, kikazaru, iwazaru ….and awazaru?

  1. ayesha sajid says:

    why was the first thing that came to my mind when i saw the monkeys was the … ‘Pakistani awam’… specially the last one … awazaru !!
    leashed, bored, expected to jump at every tug of the proprieters shackels .

  2. Rafay Kashmiri says:

    Owais Mughal,

    Well, of course we see corde, feet, the box, and the cute
    pose of the must “tang pay Tang”, I think the idea was
    to use one photo for three poses with both the hands
    covering ears, eyes, and mouth, however they are
    very.very cute and handsome, intelligent macacs.
    You could have added a direction arrow of a
    contradicting adress.

  3. Owais Mughal says:

    Khurram, yes I guess so too. the photo looks like 4 poses of the same monkey. I still liked it very much for the expressions they have and wanted to share.

  4. Khurram says:

    The picture is doctored, and not very well at that. The original photo has only one monkey. There are plenty of cluses: spots on the road, the monkey’s collar, the leash apparently disapperaing into thin air, the yellow-and-black road divider in the back appearing oddly fragmented….

  5. Rafay Kashmiri says:

    Ovais Mughal,

    filbadih arz kia hay

    Bander ka tamsha hay zara, ghaur say dekhain
    Sumjha rehay hain kia, wo zara aqqle say samjhain

    Adaab arz hay

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