Kehrie Planners of Naya Kashmir & not Kehrie Khodie 1960, Prof Ghulam Mohammad Bhat, professor of Economics delivered lecture on Malthusian theory on population. It says that the population is either controlled by preventive checks or by positive checks. Preventive checks, he explained are caesareans, vasectomy, etcetera. Positive checks are when nature in absence of preventive checks intervenes and balances the population. He explained that when population overtakes the resources to sustain it, a big chunk of population is washed away by floods, epidemics, wars, earthquakes, fires, famines, droughts…..that we name as natural calamity. Before he concluded his lecture, he said “Sumjay”. Unlike the pin drop silence in his class, I responded “Sumjnay walay sumuj ghuiay-na sumjay woh anadee hai”. It broke all the records and the whole class including the Professor burst into thunderous laughter. On the birth of his fifth child, I suggested Prof. Ali Bhat for planning his family. He said: “Allah talla chue kunie tulkis kemis tie rizikh vatnavan”. I said: “Your child is not an insect that needs only food. Your child is a human being. He needs proper care, education, health care and above all to be groomed as a civilized citizen full of virtues.” 1990 turmoil is a positive check. In view of Malthusian theory, I don’t accuse my Muslim brethren for my exodus. People of highest values looked for the evacuated houses. Stationery shops, vegetable sellers, cloth merchants, butchers were seen selling looted gas cylinders. From barber to beggar, labourer to laundry owner, government officials to business men turned to the profession of property dealers. Parents of many children supplied recruits for arms training across the border. Parents of the few preferred migration to safer zones. Parents of many contributed to the brigade of stone pelters. Parents of the few controlled their children and let them not get astray or become fodder to the bullet in exchange of the pelted stone. Likewise, I believe it is sin to say September 2014 ferocious flood was ‘Kehrie Khodaie’ when it is the proof of Malthusian Theory of population and positive check. Until late fifties, Jawahar Nagar was farmland, Doodh Ganga, now shopping complex used to run water mill, Nalie Maer was a water channel with tiled basin, now a road to bear the extra ordinary load of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Bemina Colony, Degree College Bemina was a water body until late sixties. Balgarden and Narsing Garh were farm lands. Vegetable growers used to irrigate their fields by ‘Toleavoer’ and draw water from the then Doodh Ganga, now a shopping complex. This devastation due to ferocious flood is not kehrie Khodie, but kehrie planners of Naya Kashmir. Toleavoer:The humble picottah,, identical to the Egyptian shaduf. A bucket drops down to the water in the well. Raising it is made easier by the counterweight at the end of the balance beam. Only a few feet of lift are possible, though in Egyptthese devices used to be arranged in series.
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