He survived snake bites but fell prey to mosquito bites
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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://c2.zedo.com/jsc/c2/ff2.js"></script><noscript> <a href="http://xads.zedo.com/ads2/r?n=563;c=1538;s=641;x=2304;u=j;z=[timestamp]" target="_blank"><img border="0" width="300" height="250" src="http://xads.zedo.com/ads2/x?n=563;c=1538;s=641;x=2304;u=j;z=[timestamp]" alt="Click here"></a> </noscript> သူဟာကံႀကမၼာကုိအံတုၿပီးအဆိပ္ၿပင္းတဲ ့ေၿမြေတြရဲ့အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္အကိုက္ခံရၿခင္းမွ အသက္ရွင္လြတ္ေၿမာက္ ခဲ ့ပါတယ္... သုိ ့ေပမယ္ ့လည္း အေႀကာင္းကံက၊ ေၿဗာင္းဆန္ကာဖန္တီးခဲ ့သည္ကေတာ ့အိႏၵိယနုိင္ငံရဲ ့နာမည္အေက်ာ္ ႀကားဆံုးေၿမြဆရာ ေကရာ့ခ်္ကူးမားတစ္ေယာက္ ေၿမြကုိက္ခံရလို ့မေသပဲ ၿခင္ကိုက္ခံရလို ့ေသခဲ ့ရပါေတာ ့ တယ္... ဟုိက္ဒရာဘတ္အေၿခစုိက္ သေပၸါမိတ္ ( ေၿမြခ်စ္သူ၊ ေၿမြမိတ္ေဆြမ်ား ) အဖဲြ ့အစည္းရဲ ့ဥကၠဌလည္းၿဖစ္သူ မစၥတာရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားတစ္ေယာက္ ၿခင္ကုိက္ခံရၿပီးေနာက္ ဦးေနွာက္ထဲငွက္ဖ်ားပုိး၀င္ၿပီးကြယ္လြန္ခဲ ့ရေလ ေတာ ့သည္... ဟုိဒရာဘတ္ရဲ ့ေၿမြမင္းသားလို ့လူသိထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ႀကားတဲ ့ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားဟာ လူေတြအထင္အၿမင္လဲြမွားစြာ ေႀကာက္စရာေကာင္းတယ္၊ အႏ ၱရယ္ေပးတယ္လုိ ့ယူဆခဲ ့ႀကတဲ ့ေၿမြေတြနဲ ့၇ဲ၀ံ ့စြန္ ့စားစြာကိုင္တြယ္ၿပသ ခဲ ့တဲ ့ၿပကြက္ေတြကုိ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ေပါလ္မာတင္ ရဲ ့ရုပ္သံစီးရီးမ်ားၿဖင္ ့အိႏၵိယနုိင္ငံမွာ ၿပသခဲ ့ပါတယ္... ေၿမြမ်ားႏွင္ ့ပါတ္သက္သည္ ့မည္သည္ ့အေရးေပၚအေၿခအေနမ်ဴိးမွာမဆုိကူညီကယ္တင္ခဲ ့တတ္သည္ ့ႀကင္ နာသနားတတ္သူ ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားဟာ ၎ရဲ ့ၿမဳိ ့ေတာ္တင္မက တစ္ၿခားနယ္ေၿမေဒသမ်ားမွာမွာ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ ႀကားသူတစ္ဦးၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားရဲ ့ဘ၀မွာ ေၿမြေတြကုိ ပထမဦးဆံုးထိေတြ ့ဆက္ဆံခဲ ့ရတာကေတာ ့၎ရဲ ့အိမ္ၿခံ၀န္းထဲကုိ မ ေတာ္တစ္ဆ ၀င္ေရာက္လာခဲ ့တဲ ့အဆိပ္မဲ ့ေၿမြတစ္ေကာင္ကုိ လူတစ္စုက ရက္စက္စြာသတ္ၿဖတ္ေနခဲ ့ႀက တာကုိၿမင္ေတြ ့ခဲ ့ရာကပဲၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... လူေတြဘာေႀကာင္ ့ေၿမြေတြကုိ သတ္ႀကရသလည္းဆုိတာနားမလည္နုိင္တဲ ့ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားေလးဟာ သူ ့ရဲ ့သံ သယၿဖစ္မွဳေတြကုိ မိခင္ၿဖစ္သူ ဂ်ဴိအန္ကာႏုရီကို ေမးၿမန္းခဲ ့ၿပီး သူမက ဘုရားသခင္ဖန္ဆင္းခဲ့တဲ ့ခ်စ္စရာ လွပတဲ ့ေၿမြသတၱ၀ါေတြကုိ လူေတြက အထင္မွားအၿမင္မွားနားလည္မွဳလြဲၿပီး သတ္ၿဖတ္ေနႀကတာၿဖစ္တယ္ လို ့ရွင္းၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္... သူမရဲ ့စကားလံုးမ်ားဟာ ႏုနယ္လွတဲ ့သူငယ္ေလး ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားရဲ ့ႏွလံုးအိမ္ထဲမွာ အစဥ္အၿမဲစဲြေနခဲ ့ၿပီး မိ ခင္ၿဖစ္သူက သူ ့ကုိ ေၿမြစိမ္းကေလးတစ္ေကာင္ လက္ေဆာင္အၿဖစ္ေပးခဲ ့ရာကစၿပီး သူနဲ ့ေၿမြေတြရဲ ့ခ်စ္ခင္ ရင္းႏွီးမွဳ ဘ၀ဇတ္ေႀကာင္းစခဲ ့တာပါပဲ.... ေၿမြေတြအေႀကာင္းသိလိုသူမွန္သမွ်အတြက္ အၿမဲတမ္းမေမာနုိင္မပန္းနုိင္ၿပသ၊ ေၿပာဆုိ၊ ရွင္းလင္းေနခဲ ့တဲ ့ ၇ာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားဟာ ေၿမြေဟာက္၊ ေၿမြေပြးအပါအ၀င္ အဆိပ္ၿပင္းေၿမြမ်ားအကိုက္ခံရမွဳ အနည္းဆံုး၂၉ ႀကိမ္အ ထိရွိခဲ ့ၿပီး အသက္မေသပဲ လြတ္ေၿမာက္ခဲ ့သူၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... " ( ေၿမြကိုက္ခံရလို ့) အေၿခအေနေတြအလြန္ဆုိးခဲ ့တံုးကဆုိယင္ သူ ့လက္ေခ်ာင္းေလးႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္းေတာင္ ၿဖတ္ပစ္ခဲ ့ရပါတယ္..." လို ့ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားရဲ ့ႏွစ္ရွည္လမ်ားခင္မင္ခဲ ့တဲ ့သူငယ္ခ်င္းလည္းၿဖစ္ သဘာ၀သစ္ ေတာမ်ားထိန္းသိမ္းေရးဒုတိယအႀကီးအကဲလည္းၿဖစ္တဲ ့ ေအရွန္ကာရန္ ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္... " သူဟာ ေၿမြေတြကုိဘယ္လိုဖမ္းရမယ္၊ ၿပီးေတာ ့ေမြးကင္းစကေလးငယ္မ်ားကုိကုိင္တြယ္ေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္သ လို ေၿမြေတြကုိဘယ္လိုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ရမယ္ဆုိတာ ကြ်မ္းကြ်မ္းက်င္က်င္ကုိသိနားလည္ပါတယ္... ငယ္စဥ္ေက်ာင္းသားဘ၀တုံးကဆုိယင္ သူဟာေၿမြေတြကုိ ကယ္တင္ၿပီးတိရိစာၧန္ရံုကုိပုိ ့ေလ ့ရွိပါတယ္... သူဟာ ေၿမြေတြကုိ လူေတြရဲ ့ႏွိပ္စက္သတ္ၿဖတ္မွဳေဘးကေနကာကြယ္ခ်င္ေနခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... သူ ့ဘ၀တစ္ခုလံုးေၿမြေတြအတြက္ေပးဆပ္ထားတာၿဖစ္ၿပီး ေၿမြလမၸာယ္ၿပပဲြအတြက္ေငြဘယ္ေတာ ့မွမယူခဲ ့ သူလည္းၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... သူ ့ကုိဦးေႏွာက္ထဲငွက္ဖ်ားပုိးေရာက္တာၿဖစ္တယ္လို ့ဆရာ၀န္ေတြကစမ္းသပ္စစ္ေဆးေတြ ့ရွိခဲ ့ၿပီး ႏွစ္ရက္ ႀကာကုသခဲ ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ေသဆံုးသြားခဲ ့တာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..." လို ့သူရဲ ့အစ္ကုိၿဖစ္သူ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာပရာကက္ရွ္ ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ့ပါတယ္... ရာ ့ခ်္ကူးမားဟာ ထုိၿမဳိ ့မွာေၿမြမ်ားဖမ္းေပးဖုိ ့တစ္လလွ်င္ အႀကိမ္ ၃၀ ေလာက္အကူအညီေတာင္းခံ၊ အေခၚ ခံရေလ ့ရွိၿပီး ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၊ တကၠသုိလ္မ်ား နုိင္ငံအႏွံ ့ေၿမြၿပပဲြမ်ား အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ၿပသခဲ ့ပါတယ္... သူဟာ အထူးသၿဖင္ ့ေတာႀကီးေၿမြေဟာက္မ်ားကုိ ခ်စ္ခင္ၿမတ္နုိးၿပီး သူ ့ကုိေလးစားခ်စ္ခင္တဲ ့ေနာက္လုိက္ တပည္ ့ေပါင္း ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရွိပါတယ္... " ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့အေနနဲ ့( သူေသဆုံးသြားၿပီဆုိတဲ ့) သတင္းကုိလက္ခံနုိင္လို ့မရနုိင္ေသးပါဘူး...သူ ့ကုိဂုဏ္ ၿပဳေဖာ္ၿပဖုိ ့စကားလံုးေတြနဲ ့ေတာင္မွမၿပည္ ့စံုပါဘူး..." လုိ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့တပည္ ့ေၿမြဆ၇ာတစ္ဦးၿဖစ္သူ ရာဂ်ဴးက ေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္... ေသဖို ့အေႀကာင္းကံဖန္လာယင္ ယခင္ကဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲအႏ ၱရယ္ႀကီးမားတာေတြ ့နဲ ့ေတြ ့ၿပီးလြတ္ေၿမာက္ ခဲ ့ေလသမွ် ဘာမဟုတ္တာေလးနဲ ့လည္း ေသႀကရတာပါပဲ... He defied fate and survived venomous snake bites innumerable times, but in what can only be described as a bizarre twist that fate had in store for him, K Raj Kumar, one of India's best known ophiologist, fell victim to mosquito bites. President of the Hyderabad-based `Friends of Snakes Society,' Raj Kumar died of complications caused by cerebral malaria at a hospital here on Monday. The killer infection is caused by mosquitoes bites which transfer the deadly virus. Popularly known as the "snake man of Hyderabad," Raj Kumar'sadventures with the slithery but largely misunderstood creatures was featured in Paul Merton's popular television serial on India. An endearing person who was always accessible to people when they placed SOS calls to him, Raj Kumar was a celebrity in his own right in the city, and elsewhere. Raj Kumar's first encounter with a snake was when he, as a child, saw a group of people brutally killing a harmless, non-venomous snake that had strayed into their residence. Unable to see reason as to why people killed snakes, Raj Kumar sought answers to his doubts from his mother Joan Kanuri who explained to him why people resorted to killing snakes, which were "beautiful but misunderstood creations of God." Her words left a lasting impression on the child's mind and when she gifted him a Green Vine Snake, it was the beginning of a long journey of friendship and love for snakes. Raj Kumar, who was always ready to hold demonstrations for anyone interested in knowing about snakes, survived at least 29 bites including that of a cobra and a viper. "Things turned serious twice and his fingers were amputated," says A Shankaran, deputy conservator of forests and a long-time friend of Raj Kumar. "Once he was admitted in intensive care unit where 23 doses of anti-venom were given to save his life. He escaped all these but cerebral malaria killed him," he said. Shankaran goes on to add: "He knew the art of capturing snakes and handled them gently as we handle newborns. As a school boy, he used to rescue snakes and hand over them to the zoo. He wanted to protect them from people. He dedicated all his life for snakes and never took money for his shows." "He was di agnosed of the dis ease and treatment began two days ago but he died on Monday morning," said his brother, Mr K. Prakash, an engineer. "He was such a loveable man." Raj Kumar used to attend at least 30 calls a month to rescue snakes in the twin cities. He had also conducted hundreds of shows in schools and institutions across the country. He was particularly fond of the King Cobra. He had at least 200 disciples, who adored him. "We can't digest the news. There are now words to describe him," says Raju, an aspiring ophiologist. news@khaleejtimes.com K. Raj Kumar