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.
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| 'Toleavoer' |
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.
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| Drabiyar Temple after vandalized by militants |
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| Rugh Nath Mandir Srinagar in ruins after vandalized by terrorists |
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| M Dass House in ruins after it was set ablaze by terrorists twice in Aug.1990. Window and door frames looted by locals |
This device is called 'Tolevoer' in Kashmiri language. It is the indigenous method to irrigate ones vegetable farm. One beam in horizontal position is hinged over the pole in vertical position. Appreciable weight is tied to the rear end of the beam in the horizontal position. Arm of portion of the beam towards the weight tied to it is shorter than the portion towards the source of water. Round bottom bucket (known as duel) is tied with a rope to the water source end. The farmer pulls down the rope until the duel is filled with water. Then with little upward force he pulls up the bucket. The weight tied on the other end and his application of minimum upward force draws the bucket to the surface of the land. The round bottom 'duel' tilts easily to irrigate the land. Without reading Archimedes three principles of lever, buoyancy, Statics and Dynamics in any professional College, they do practicals without the supervision of the late Prof. J N Dhar or Prof. T N Kilam. Cheers for their innovative scientific methods.
onal College, they do practicals without the supervision of the late Prof. J N Dhar or Prof. T N Kilam. Cheers for their innovative scientific methods.
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| All these floating houses vanished. The inmates occupied the evacuated houses of Kashmiri Pundits in exile. |
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| Excursion in a doonga is dream of the past |
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| Water bodies once navigated have become roads |
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| This was their floating house |
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| Anchar Lake now residential colony |
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