Of Population and politicians

Sani pradosham is quite famous of all the regular pradoshams in shivan temples. Even during regular times, the number of people who turn up for this happens to be much more than the usual ones that fall on other days of the week. With Social media, whenever there is a random post claiming that particular one happens to be ultra special for some reason best known to Whatsapp university, you can easily make out its impact by the turn outs. The last one i attended, apparently was on such a timing it seems, for the entire stretch around the temple, all the 4 maada streets, where jam packed. Literally you've to walk over vehicles if you had to cross the road for there were hardly any space for pedestrians. And once inside the temple, it was even heavier with literal standing space being luxury. Engenthu thaan ivlo per thideernu varuvaangalo!! Many a times i've loathed in this very space the crowds that turn up at every nook andd corner worth visiting. Any hill station or water body or trekking space or any place worth going is no longer worth it, for there would be at least a thousand other folk who would've thought of the exact same plan. In this backdrop the comments made by some of our politicians ring an alarming bell!!!

Recently the CM of Andhra had mentioned that people should shun the "We two ours one" slogan when it comes to planning their family and should go for as many children as they can produce, for reasons best known to him!! With declining birth rate across several countries around the globe, this has been the thought process across many nations including China i believe, where they are pushing for more babies literally!! Even with all the declining growth rates, we are hitting 8 billion and counting. With these kind of hare brained aggressive measures by governments, whose very efforts in containing the population had hardly earned any results, wonder ten billion target will possibly be achieved by end of this decade itself. On one hand doomsayers predict fall of regimes and economies where people stay alive (literally) for long, for an economy to thrive it needs youth. On other hand the same economists blame country like India, which, despite its thriving youth population, at least for next few decades, doesn't have quality employable workforce. The rate at which the conversations happen back and forth, pretty soon they would be rooting for "specially made" populace, who will strive for one particular reason. Makes one wonder, how different such a scenario would be against the much riled setup of the ancients as mentioned by Thiruvalluvar that its not by birth, but basis the nature of work humans are stratagized. The condition is India is one of the weirdest in the world where every community harps on being labelled as backward to enjoy the benefits that comes with that title. With more and more politicians urging people to increase the birth rate, wouldn't that mean majoritarianism is what they are proposing (imposing rather) for people?!! Enna karumamo..irukara populationukkay edam illa..inium ethikittay pona...enga thaan porathu!!