I completed my lunch and was going to the cubicle; on the
way I've met few of my friends who were discussing of “A Man who moved
mountains”.I thought, either it must be
a movie or else some novel they might be discussing and moved on. One of my
friend came to me and started the same topic, I ignored him saying – “what a
cartoon act, no more movie discussions”. He laughed at me and said, “It is the
fact not a story”.
Mountain man – Dashrath Manjhi
Whatever the subject is, it looks like unbelievable and
extra-ordinary, but it is the true story. Gehlour is a village in Bihar, which
is surrounded by hills on four sides. The courage of late-Dashrath Manjhi is
been told as bedtime stories to the children. People from the Gehlour village
need to travel all-around the hill to reach the adjacent city Wazirganj to
purchase groceries.
Dashrath Manjhi had a farm and to get firewood for his daily
usage, he used to go to the top of the hill. His wife Paguni Devi used to climb
up the hill to serve food and water to her husband. One day during her way to
top, she fell and broke the pot which contains water and food. She was injured
and broke her ankle. In order to hospitalize her, they need to cross the hill
or take a 75 km path around the hill. Due to the hilly path, she was not able
to make till hospital.
The day when this incident happened, he said to hill that “how
you broke the pot, in the same way I’m going to break you”. He sold his goats
and bought a hammer & chisel. He started to hammer the 300-feet-high hill;
in the beginning villagers thought that, “he has become mad”. Manjhi moved his
hut near to the hill, so that he could work day and night. He moved stone by
stone for 22 years and achieved his unimaginable task of creating a way of 1km
to the villagers through the hill. In 2007 Dashrath Manjhi has passed away due
to cancer.
I pay my humble tribute to Dashrath Manjhi. May his soul rest in
peace.
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