rkumar
July 26th, 2006, 02:45 PM
Dear Friends,
I am starting a thread where we can post the stories of some rare Indian individuals who did something really great inspite of having hardly any resources. I am starting the thread with the story of Dasrath Manjhi. This is how the story has been reported in HT.
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Man who moved a mountain
Vijay Swaroop and IANS
Patna, July 25, 2006
A frail old man had just entered the chief minister's durbar when Nitish Kumar looked up. The man at the helm of affairs stood up and offered his chair. After all, he was standing face to face with Dasrath Manjhi, the man who had moved a mountain.
At 60, Manjhi is a legend --- he dug a 3 km long passage through a mountain, with a hammer, a chisel and his bare hands, to connect his village, Gahluar, to civilisation. It took him 22 years but he succeeded. If the Taj Mahal is Shah Jahan's tribute to his wife, the road that Manjhi built--- it cut the time for people to travel to the next village from six hours to one -- is his memorial to his wife, who died because he could not take her to a nearby hospital in time. Now, the road he built has been introduced in the state’s road construction programme. The government has fulfilled its promise to grant Manjhi five acres of land.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1753064,0035.htm
RK^2
I am starting a thread where we can post the stories of some rare Indian individuals who did something really great inspite of having hardly any resources. I am starting the thread with the story of Dasrath Manjhi. This is how the story has been reported in HT.
.................................................. .............................................
Man who moved a mountain
Vijay Swaroop and IANS
Patna, July 25, 2006
A frail old man had just entered the chief minister's durbar when Nitish Kumar looked up. The man at the helm of affairs stood up and offered his chair. After all, he was standing face to face with Dasrath Manjhi, the man who had moved a mountain.
At 60, Manjhi is a legend --- he dug a 3 km long passage through a mountain, with a hammer, a chisel and his bare hands, to connect his village, Gahluar, to civilisation. It took him 22 years but he succeeded. If the Taj Mahal is Shah Jahan's tribute to his wife, the road that Manjhi built--- it cut the time for people to travel to the next village from six hours to one -- is his memorial to his wife, who died because he could not take her to a nearby hospital in time. Now, the road he built has been introduced in the state’s road construction programme. The government has fulfilled its promise to grant Manjhi five acres of land.
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1753064,0035.htm
RK^2