Eighty-year-oldManGets Ready for 31st Child

အာသံၿပည္နယ္က လူစြမ္းေကာင္း...

အာသံကေက်းရြာတဲအိမ္ေလး....

အိႏၵိယနုိင္ငံအာသံၿပည္နယ္မွ အသက္ ၈၀ အရြယ္ရွိ လယ္သမား အဘုိးအုိတစ္ဦးဟာ သူ ့ရဲ ့စတုတၳ
ဇနီးက ေမြးတဲ ့ ႏွစ္လသားအရြယ္ ၀၀ၿဖဳိးၿဖဳိးခ်စ္စရာသားေယာက်ာၤးေလးကုိ ပုခက္ထဲမွာေခ်ာ  ့သိပ္
ေနခ်ိန္မွာပဲ သူ ့ရဲ ့တတိယဇနီးက သူ ့အတြက္ ၃၁ ေယာက္ေၿမာက္ ကေလးကုိ ေမြးဖြားေပးေတာ့မွာ
မုိ ့သူ ့အေနနဲ ့က်န္းမာသန္စြမ္းေနဆဲပဲဆုိတာ သံသယမရွိေပမယ္ ့(တစ္ေနရာမွာ ထူးခြ်န္လြန္ကဲေန
တဲ ့) အစြမ္းအစ ကုိေတာ ့အနည္းငယ္ စုိးရိမ္စၿပဳေနပါၿပီ....

” ဒီလုိ ဇနီး၊မယား ေလးဦးနဲ ့သားသမီးေပါင္း ၃၀ ပါ၀င္တဲ ့မိသားစုႀကီးပုိင္ဆုိင္ေနရတာကုိက ဘုရား
ေပးတဲ ့လက္ေဆာင္ပါပဲ...”  လုိ ့ၿဖဴေဖြးရွည္လ်ားလွတဲ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့မုတ္ဆိတ္ေမြးေတြေႀကာင္ ့ယားယံအေန
ခက္ၿပီး ငုိေနတဲ ့ကေလးငယ္ကုိ ေပြ ့ခ်ီထားတဲ ့လူစြမ္းေကာင္း အဘုိး Ali ကအားရပါးရၿပဳံးယင္း ေၿပာၿပ
ခဲ့ပါတယ္....

 အာသံသူမ်ား....

အာသံၿပည္နယ္ရဲ ့အဓိက ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္၊ Guwahati ကေန အေရွ ့ဘက္အရပ္ ၇၀ ကီလုိမီတာ အကြာအ
ေ၀းက Lakhimpur  ေဒသမွာရွိတဲ ့ Mohkhuli  ရြာကေလးကရႊံ ့နဲ ့မံၿပီးအင္ဖက္၊ သက္ကယ္မုိးထား
တဲ ့ တဲ၀ုိင္းစုကေလးရဲ ့ေရွ ့မွာ ခေနာ္နီနေနာ္နဲ ့ႀကိမ္ကုလားထိုင္မွာထုိင္ေနတဲ ့အဘ Ali ရဲ ့ပံုပန္းက
ေတာ ့ပိန္ပိန္ပါးပါးနဲ ့အားနည္းေနတဲ ့ပုံုေပါက္ေနပါတယ္...
” လူတစ္ဦးကုိ ပိန္တာ၊ ၀တာ အရပ္နိမ္ ့တာ၊ ၿမင္ ့တာေတြနဲ ့ခန္ ့မွန္း အကဲၿဖတ္လို ့မရပါဘူး...က်ဴပ္
ရဲ ့ႏွလံုးသားကနုပ်ဴိေနေပမယ္ ့ေနာက္ထပ္မိန္းမ ထပ္ယူဖုိ ့ ေတာ ့စိတ္ကူးမရွိပါဘူး...ဒီဇနီးမယားေတြ
နဲ ့အေယာက္ ၃၀ မွ်ေသာ သားသမီးေတြေရာ၊ အခုေနာက္ဆံုးေမြးေတာ ့မယ္ ့ ၃၁ ေရာက္ေၿမာက္ က
ေလးအပါအ၀င္ ဒီမိသားစုႀကီးနဲ ့ေပ်ာ္ရြင္ေနပါၿပီ....”  လို ့ခ်ီထားတဲ ့လက္ထဲက ကေလးကုိ လာယူဖို ့
ဇနီးတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ လွမ္းေခၚလိုက္တဲ ့အဖုိးအုိက ေၿပာလုိုက္ပါတယ္....
အခုေတာ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့အႀကီးဆံုးသားပင္လွ်င္ အသက္ ၄၀ ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....
ဒါေပမယ္ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့သားသမီးေတြအားလံုးရဲ ့အမည္ေတြကုိမွတ္မိရဲ ့လားလို ့ေမးေတာ ့အသက္ရွစ္ဆယ္
အရြယ္ရွိၿပီၿဖစ္တဲ ့အဘုိး Ali  ခမ်ာအကုန္မစဥ္းစားနုိင္ေတာ ့ရွာပါဘူး... 

” ဖခင္တစ္ေယာက္က ကုိယ္ ့ရဲ ့သားသမီးေတြရဲ ့အမည္ကုိ မမွတ္မိပဲေနလိမ္ ့မယ္လုိ ့ခင္ဗ်ားက
ထင္တယ္ေပါ ့...”  လုိ ့အနည္းငယ္စိတ္တုိေနတဲ ့ဟန္နဲ ့သူကေၿပာၿပီး ကေလးေတြရဲ ့နာမည္ကုိ စတင္
စဥ္းစားရြတ္ဆုိပါေတာ့တယ္... ဒါေပမယ္ ့ ၁၅ ေယာက္ေလာက္သာေၿပာနုိင္ၿပီး ေရွ ့ဆက္ မမွတ္မိနုိင္
ေတာ ့ပါဘူး...
” တစ္ခါတစ္ေလေတာ့လည္း သူတုိ ့နာမည္ေတြကုိ ေမ ့ကုန္တာေပါ ့...ဒါေပမယ္ ့သူတုိ ့မ်က္ႏွာၿမင္ကုိ
ၿမင္လုိက္ယင္ေတာ ့မွတ္မိပါတယ္...”  လုိ ့သူက အားရပါးရ ရယ္ေမာလုိက္ယင္းေၿပာပါတယ္...
” အခုလုိမ်ားၿပားႀကီးမားတဲ ့အိမ္ေထာင္စုႀကီးအတြက္ေနာင္တမရ၊ စိတ္မပ်က္ခဲ ့ပါဘူး...ဇနီးသည္ေလး
ေယာက္စလံုးကလည္း လိမၼာႀကၿပီး က်ဴပ္ကုိဂရုစိုက္ႀကပါတယ္ ...” လို ့ Ali ကဆုိပါတယ္....
သူ ့ရဲ ့ဇနီးသည္ေလးဦးစလံုးကလည္း သူတုိ ့ရဲ ့ခင္ပြန္း ( အသက္ႀကီးေပမယ္ ့မပ်က္စီးေသးတဲ ့) အ
ဘုိးႀကီးဟာ တာ၀န္သိတတ္တဲ ့ခင္ပြန္းၿဖစ္သလုိ ကေလးေတြကုိလည္း ဖခင္၀တၱရားေက်ပြန္ကာ သူ
တုိ ့အားလံုးကုိလည္း သာတူညီမွ်ပဲ ဆက္ဆံပါတယ္လုိ ့ေၿပာႀကပါတယ္....
” သူဟာအိမ္ေထာင္တာ၀န္သိတတ္တဲ ့ ေယာက်ာၤးေကာင္းတစ္ေယာက္ပါပဲ...”  လို ့သားရွစ္ေယာက္၊
သမီးသံုးေယာက္ ၊စုစုေပါင္းကေလး ၁၁ ေယာက္တုိ ့ရဲ ့မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ၊ သူ ့ရဲ ့ပထမဇနီး (မယားႀကီး )ၿဖစ္
သူ Mohirun Nessa ကေၿပာပါတယ္...

ဇနီးေလးဦးဟာ အိမ္၀ုိင္းစုကေလးမွာ သီးၿခားတဲေလးေတြနဲ ့ေနထုိင္ႀကတာမုိ ့ဘဘ Ali အတြက္ ဇနီး
ေလးေယာက္တုိ ့ဆီ တစ္လွည္ ့ဆီ အေဆာင္ေတာ္ကူးၿပီးေနဖုိ ့အခြင္ ့သာသြားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
” က်ဴပ္ရဲ ့မိန္းမေတြေရာ၊ ကေလးေတြေရာ ဘယ္သူကမွ ၿပစ္တင္ေ၀ဖန္၊ ေစာဒက မတက္ႀကပါဘူး...”
လို ့ Mr Ali ကေၿပာၿပပါတယ္...
သူ ့ရဲ ့သားသမီး ၁၅ ဦးဟာလည္းအိမ္ေထာင္ေတြက်ၿပီးအိမ္ခဲြေနႀကပါၿပီ...
( မိသားစုကမ်ားတဲ ့အိမ္ေထာင္စုႀကီးမုိ ့) တစ္ခါတစ္ေလေတာ ့ေငြေရးေႀကးေရး၊ အခက္အခဲႀကဳံေပ
မယ္ ့ အရြယ္ေရာက္တဲ ့သားေတြကအလုပ္ လုပ္ႀကလို ့သူတုိ ့ကၿပန္ေထာက္ပံ ့ႀကပါတယ္လို ့အဘုိး
အုိ Ali ကေၿပာၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အသက္ႀကီးေပမယ္ ့မပ်က္စီးေသးဘူးဆုိတဲ ့စကားလုိပါပဲ...

မူရင္းအဂၤလိပ္လုိသတင္းပါ...
Eighty-year-old Man Gets Ready for 31st Child At 80, Hussain Ali, a small farmer in Assam, is still going strong but is a little worried as his third wife is expecting his 31st child, even as he is busy cradling a bubbly two-month-old baby boy in the courtyard, born to his fourth wife.
"It is all God's gift and wish that I have a large family of four wives and 30 children," Ali said with a hearty smile as his flowing grey beard tickled the infant and made him cry in his arms. Ali looked frail and emaciated as he sat in a rickety cane chair outside his cluster of mud-and-thatch huts at Mohkhuli village in Lakhimpur district, about 370 km east of Assam's main city Guwahati.

"Don't judge someone by his weight or height. I am young at heart although I am not going to marry any more and am happy with my 30 children and another that one of my wives is expecting," Ali said as he ordered one of his wives to come and take the baby from him. His eldest son is 40.
But the octogenarian Ali was at his wit's end when asked if he remembered the names of all his children.
"You think being a father I would not remember the names of my children," Ali retorted with palpable anger and started telling the names of his children, but failed to complete the list after about 15 names.

"At times I do forget their names but recognise them from their faces," he said with yet another hearty laugh.
"I have no regrets for this large family and all my four wives are very good and caring," Ali said.

All four wives say Ali is a responsible husband and father and gives equal treatment to all of them.
"He is a nice man and very responsible," said first wife Mohirun Nessa who is the proud mother of 11 children -- eight sons and three daughters.

The four wives stay in separate huts in the same compound with Ali making it a point to stay with all of them by turns in their respective huts.
"There are no complaints whatsoever from my wives or my children," Ali said. At least 15 of them are now married and stay separately.

"At times it was hard to maintain the family, but now with some of my sons working, they help us financially," Ali said. -

mohkhuli (assam) -