In the Name of Love

Of all the promises that lovers make to each other, I came across one in which the man literally splits a mountain in half in the name of his love. Dashrath Manjhi, now known as the Mountain Man, was a poor labourer in Gehlaur village near Gaya in Bihar, India. In 1959, Dashrath's wife Falguni Devi passed away because she was not able to get medical attention on time. There was a hill in the way and people had to travel 70kms to get to the nearest health care facility, that was on the other side of the hill. After his wife passed way, it took Dashrath Manjhi 22 years to single handedly carve a path through the huge hill and shortened the distance from 70kms to just 1km. All this, so that no one else will have to lose their loved ones like he lost his. He died in 2007 at the age of 73. He was given a state funeral by the Government of Bihar.