Books by Mayar Akash

This photo book featuring the photographs I've taken during my work at the youth project based in Whitechapel, Davenant Centre, the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) in 1992; with my compact cameraThese photos were taken with 35mm film, so they don't have the date & time imprint in the image data. However, some of the photos have the date & time imprinted in the photographs through the cameras that I used to start off my photography passion.These pictures capsules of their era, containing rich details and information about the progression of the 90s young Bangladeshi; their assimilation to their home.

This 3rd installment gives you more photos from the East End, new and varied, guaranteed to take you to the parts of Tower Hamlets, that you may never set foot.

This is in a series of photo books, cataloguing Mayar's Photograbbing time and date from locations all over United Kingdom. Photojounals, covering from the late 80s and onwards, thousand of photos taken with the 35mm to start off with and then onto digitals.

M.G & Me is the author's memoires of his life with Wegener'sGranulomatosis. The author recounts his days with this disease andcarrying the affliction that he is going to die within 4 to 5 years.What was he going to do with this infliction that pranced on him outof the blue.In 2009 there wasn't much information about this disease and all thatwere out there were very raw. Mayar lost all hopes and left behindeveryhting to be ready for death from this painful vasculitis,autoimmune disease.It is this journey that turned around his fate, this emotional and mentalroller coaster ride, has thrown many twists and turns that inadvertantlybecame a spiritual one. In those moments of decisions and choices thatMayar found his salvation, saviour the healing power which Mayarpresent in this book so that readers and people with the same afflictioncan find some hope, like he did.

This book focuses on what happened in 1993 at Quddus Ali's Vigil, the photographs capture information about the event from local youth's perspective; historically in the past much of the local individual's accounts and perspectives got lost in the passage of time, their accounts are not presented in literatures as of "First hands", but become articles of others, such as reports, newspaper columns and quotes.

The founding Bangladeshis have been in the borough of Tower Hamlets from the late 19th century, over 150 years minimum, from the days of the lascars and The East India Company. Like all new communities setting up, it takes a while to settle in and foundations become a necessity to build. The forefathers, the early sailors who were the pioneers of the early twentieth century such as Sowab Ali Munshi, Nowab Ali and Ayub Ali Master and many others insured that the foundation stones be laid. Since then, from the 1920's Ayub Ali Master, and other set up bases in the form of the homes primarily, and then cafes to look after their countrymen arriving from their country and other areas of United Kingdom. This book records the legacies they left behind and new ones created by the present generations in the East End of London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

More than what you wanted to know about this placid community who in just 46 years have cemented their place in the world. A community that has their roots from the 13th century and has been formidable for the Mughals and to the East India Company. A region dense with forest and tucked away in Assam of hindustan (Now Bangladesh, India), with their own culture and religion, the region of water, floods in particular, fish eaters. From there they found their way to the shores of the world ports and established the foundation with a high personal costs. Today the Sylheti are in the driving seats of their life in United Kingdom. Here you will find how they did it.

. The content of this book has no theme other than the experiences of life in many and various stages. The journeys are many and varied with so many challenges and obstacles as a Sylheti, Bangladeshi; but the vast array of experiences are not unique to me and are universal. The experiences that I've captured are colourful and the times that they've happened give it the flavour. I want to bring to the world, my world and show that there is dissimilarity to our lives. We all ride "the ride of life" from different points but all travel to the heart/centre of what life is. In this book you will feel and experience a journey that will take you in and out, emotional, mentally and spiritually. The writing will challenge you as you read the authors snapshots of life, the randomness of the content to illustrate the randomness of life and what it throws at you or rather what you wasn't prepared for. I now that you will go on a roller coaster ride of life, don't get disheartened.