Through Picture: Mountain man

We face barriers in our lives every day.

Maybe we won’t physically break down mountains,

but through our commitment to our promises we can create change a little bit every day.

Here is a real story from India,

which inspires us to the core of our heart !!

He carved a 360 foot long, 25 foot high, and 30 foot wide road, so that vehicles could get through. It took him 22 years, from 1960 to 1982.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/History/A-Man-Carved-A-Tunnel-Through-A-Mountain/54003#TcfIHyqWxP3DraMF.99

Dashrath Manjhi (1934 – 17 August 2007) : the man who moved a mountain.

Dasrath Manjhi, a landless farmer from India, made history after he spent over two decades chiseling away at a mountain with rudimentary tools, in order to create a road for his community

he constructed a 360 feet long, 30 feet high and 25 feet wide passage through Gehlour hills with a hammer, chisel and nails working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. His feat reduced the distance between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 75 km to just one km,

“This hill had given us trouble and grief for centuries. The people had asked the government many times to make a proper road through the hill, but nobody paid any attention. So I just decided I would do it all by myself,” Manjhi told an Indian newspaper, in 2007, a shortly before succumbing to the cancer that was plaguing him. With just his chisel, hammer and shovel, this legendary man turned what was once a precarious one-foot-wide passage into a 360 ft-long, 30 ft-wide road accessible by bicycle and motorcycle.

“My wife, Faguni Devi, was seriously injured while crossing the hill to bring me water; I worked then on a farm across the hills. That was the day I decided to carve out a proper road through this hill,” the farmer said. Sadly, his beloved wife didn't get to see the fruits of his labor, as shortly after the accident she fell ill and died, because she couldn’t be taken to the hospital in time. The tragic loss only made the ambitious man more focused on his task, and fellow villagers remember seeing him “hacking at the hill day and night as if he were possessed”. But with the passing years, his motivation changed. “My love for my wife was the initial spark that ignited in me the desire to carve out a road. But what kept me working without fear or worry all those years was the desire to see thousands of villagers crossing the hill with ease whenever they wanted,” Manjhi said in an interview.

“What I did is there for everyone to see. When God is with you, nothing can stop you,” Dasrath Manjhi once said. I am neither afraid of any punishment from any government department for my work nor am I interested in any honour from the government.” It took him 22 years to fulfill his self-imposed task, but it granted him immortality…

The state government had allotted a five-acre plot to Manjhi in Karjani village, which he donated for construction of a hospital.

The mountain man’s only son and daughter in-law are handicapped and the family lives in abject poverty. For his own family, Manjhi could do nothing more than procuring an Indira Awaas Yojna unit.

#consulted and thankfully shared from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/mountain-man-dashrath-manjhi-dies-in-delhi/article1-242990.aspx

http://bhushan.quora.com/Dashrath-Manjhi-%E2%80%93-The-Man-Who-Moved-a-Mountain-The-Mountain-Man

http://becauseisaidiwould.com/mountainman/

Through Picture

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Mountain man

No comments:

Post a Comment