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Generally many love stories are narrated orally. But one love story is there which is related to its viewing that tells its own story and that is Taj Mahal.
Taj Mahal is an epic of love of an emperor. This architecture that symbolises love, is second to none in the whole of the contemporary world and perhaps unique.
What is to be borne in mind here is that had the emperor not possessed that much power and wealth, it can be taken for granted that the Taj could not have been a reality today and the love not symbolised by it.
The issue of this poor man from Gehlaur is also of the same kind but that glorious Taj has dominated the love of the poor elegantly.
Is the love of that poor man not even fit to be remembered, when an emperor built, centuries old, Taj is much talked about even today, particularly when a landless poor labourer Dashrath Manjhi stood against the facilities the emperor had enjoyed…..?
Is the love of that poor man not even fit to be remembered, when an emperor built, centuries old, Taj is much talked about even today, particularly when a landless poor labourer Dashrath Manjhi stood against the facilities the emperor had enjoyed…..?
With the help of his own weak hands, he realised his dream. He secured the loving inspiration of his wife Phaguni Devi. He alone built 360 Ft long and 30 Ft wide road cutting across the 300 Ft high hill with his two hands
His aim was to break a single stone at one go and then march ahead. While on his way to breaking all the stones with the help of his wife, she fell ill resulting in her slipping off and got injured.
“My wife, Phaguni 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” Dashrath said.
All this had happened in 1962 in a village of Gehlaur in Bihar. Gehlaur is a far flung village in Gaya District that is surrounded by a series of hills. The previous distance of Wazirganj was 70 km from Gehlaur which was round about.
But this distance is now wiped off by Dashrath’s love for his wife and labour. Apart from this example of love, one more unique feature of the Taj Mahal of Shahjahan and the Road of Dashrath Manjhi is that both of them took 22 years to be built
Yes, if they are to be distinguished, there were as many as 20,000 labourers to build the Taj, while Dashrath had only one chisel and a hammer at his disposal.
His wife was not there behind him to enjoy his success, for whose sake he toiled hard as she died in 1964. He secured a great deal of satisfaction in providing the comfort of road to his fellow villagers.
Just see how one man’s perseverance has become a luxury of many. This facility has made all the difference and he became the hero of the public ode. “If everybody likes to sit in the palanquin, who is there to carry it? Carry it and let someone sit in it a
Media termed him as another Shahjahan. Noted writer Shewaal included Dashrath’s story of struggle in his write up titled `Aag Me, Raag Me’.
The proclamation of the previous governments for sanction of a permanent Road, Primary Health Centre and a School confined to the paper itself. Tube Wells have been laid but remained without water, poles erected sans power supply.
On someone’s advice, he even undertook `paad yaatraa’ upto Delhi that never passed beyond the starting point. He never accepted defeat on the financial grounds. Yet the fate of the upcoming path crossing the hill never changed.
Interim government has certainly undertaken the task of completing the process of realising his dream. However, even though it could not finish it before his death, it accorded him the state funeral
Perhaps this road of Dashrath could be unique as it was not built by any labourer. May be this is the reason why the writer Shewaal quotes that this `road through the hill’ would be known as `road of revolution’, since the love of the masses itself is rev
Do you think that love comes by the slip of the tongue? I think that let it raise towards the sky that rises in you, keep silent, tell yourself in your silence, wage battle but love the entire world and the whole people.
Revolution preaches `Lift the weapons else raise slogans”. But Love does even more powerful as this road of love suggests…
This is not a true translation but only a `convenient’ translation without spoiling the meaning of the Hindi narration.