GUJJARS AND BAKERWALS ON HIGHWAY

Gujjars and Bakerwals have statrted their annual down movement from Hilly pastures . Gujjars sell milk and rear cows or Buffalloes and Bakerwals rear goats and sheep to be sold to Butchers in cities or towns through a network of middlemen known locally as KOTHDAARS . Both are nomadic tribes . Presently they are moving to Plains of punjab and Jammu to save their stock from ensuing winter snow . we have regular trafic jams in Kashmir as they now move along highways . Previously they used to travel through tough mountain passes but now they camp on highways and move close to city or towns . O ! what a terrible and ferrocious dogs they keep with them to ward of thieves who might attempt their hands on the stock they carry with them.Though some gujjars and bakerwals have left this tough life and settled in cities and given education to their children yet most of them continue to stick to this age old hard existence .

Na Jaana Aaj Taq kyaa Shai Khushi Hai

Hamaari Zindgi Bhi Zindgi Hai.

( Firaq Gorakhpuri )

Till this day we are unknown to the world of happiness

Pity ! Is this existence worth calling a living ?

( english translation from Original urdu by a k mota )

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