When I started hammering the hill, people called me a lunatic but that steeled my resolve – Dashrath Manjhi
The 300-foot tall mountain in the Gehlour hills near Gaya in Bihar, India, stood between the poor people of Gehlour Ganj village and civilization in Wazirganj. The mountain denied Gehlour basic facilities: a clean water supply, electricity, a school, and a medical center. After Phaguni, wife of an outcast, landless labourer Dashrath Manjhi, had an untimely death due to the lack of medical care, Manjhi sold his goats and bought a hammer, chisel, and crowbar. He climbed to the top of the hill, and started chipping away at the mountain.
Working day and night for 22 years, from 1960 to 1982, the ‘Mountain Man’ carved a path – 360-feet-long, 25-feet-deep, and 30-feet-wide – through the mountain so that his village could get medical aid in time. His feat reduced the distance between the Atri and Wazirganj blocks of the Gaya district from 80 km to 13 km, bringing doctors, jobs, and a school, that much closer to Manjhi’s village.
It, however, took the government 30 years more to tar the road. In 2006, the government rewarded his efforts with a plot of land. Manjhi donated it for the construction of a hospital. In 2007, the Government of Bihar gave him a state funeral.
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Wow!!! That’s true passion.
That’s wasn’t passion, his child/wife, died because the hospital was behind the mountain. So they had to go around the mountain to be able to save child/wife. It was to late, so because of that, that’s what drive him to make a road through the mountain. Whoever she/he was, it must have gave him an insane impact on him to achieve something like this. So again, not passion, it was love.
It was not passion, it was love. His child/wife/brother/sister, died because the hospital was behind that mountain. They were to late, and that must have been that has been driving him to do something like this. I mean he worked day and night for 22 years, all alone. Dude, this guy should be written in mankind’s history if you ask me.
It was both. Passion AND love.
Brilliant! Thinking of others and doing something about a problem, no government does that. Not unless they can put it on there expenses claim!
Spirit!
Indian are Real Working!
Respect !! :’)
This man.. is a real champion and hero.
Hey what happened with ebola?
What an amazing story. Sounds more like a fairy tale than real life.
This man , This Hero is proved that you don’t need power to save lots of people.
This man , This Hero is proved that you don’t need power to save lots of people.
This man showed selflessness up till the day he died. The thing that bothers me is it took this man 22 years to basically go through a mountain by hand. Why did it take the government 30 years just to tar that path? Not only had they not helped him with his work, but they extended the length of time that path was worked on. In the time they were tarring the path, they could of found better ways to save and help the people of Gehlour Ganj village. Another example of an individual’s selflessness, and the government’s laziness.
In India Govt. are Blind and def so far cause he was from a low cast and according to upper cast in India. History tells that dalits ( low cast ) have no values. where they have no right to stand in temple, can’t have relation with upper cast, upper cast can rape their woman and daughter, and they can’t do any thing. So you can understand pain and commitment to return to society so that nobody will face what he gone through.
It z indeed inspiring..! Hats off ….!
If it were the USA or any other western “civilization” you would have to get construction permits which would take years to be approved and you’d have to travel miles to get them, you wouldn’t be able, if you were a peasant, to afford the cost of the permit, you’d have to have safety permits, too, and you’d be forced to hire labor. Too much regulation in the USA. Too much.
Yes, USA; the land of freedom they say. Kiss my ass!
If it were the USA he wouldn’t have had to do it because the government actually WORKS (to a degree at least xD).
Also pretty sure your list is total bullshit:
You don’t need construction permits to dig a hole. This is just a really big hole.
The USA doesn’t have ‘peasants’.
You don’t need ‘safety permits’ as this kind of self direct action is not work and therefore not covered by whatever H&S law you’re thinking of.
Nobody is ‘forced’ to hire labour (this one is truly bizarre, I literally have no idea what you mean here…).
Your ideology of already thinking there is too much regulation is making you imagine it where it doesn’t exist. Not that I’m saying there ISN’T too much, just that you have to be careful of allowing your ideology to distort your thinking.
A movie recently released on him called “Manjhi” which depicts his wife fell from the mountain while trying to cross it. His love for her provided him the inspiration to break the mountain to make a road.
if only everyone worked this hard…
imagine the goals we could achieve.