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Manjhi, the mountain man How did a poor Indian farmer who could barely read manage to carve out an entire mountain? It isn't your typical fairytale. The protagonist is Dashrath Manjhi, who was born in a village in Bihar in 1843 when it was ruled by Maharaja Pratap Singh. He had always found his meager existence difficult and promised to himself that he would one day build a massive bridge across the river Ganga. After three decades of hard work and perseverance, he finally accomplished his goal at age 80 — something which has never been done before or since — by dismantling part of the mountain with pickaxe and shovel. But Manjhi's story is not widely known. When he passed away in 2007 at the age of 104, the Indian press gave him only limited coverage. A documentary film about him, Manjhi - The Mountain Man, is set to change this. It garnered the coveted Golden Gateway Award at the Mumbai International Film Festival 2014 and was also screened at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA). A tale of heroism or madness? Dashrath Manjhi was born in 1934 in Gehlaur, a village in Gaya district of Bihar. His family grew crops on land they had rented from a wealthy landlord, with little success most years. In 1939 Dashrath fell in love with a girl called Santoshi Kumari. She was the daughter of a hard-working farmer who worked three days a week and relied on his wife to support him. Her father, who also loved his daughter dearly, was infuriated by his son-in-law's poverty and did everything he could to stop their marriage. He would threaten to kill himself if the marriage went through. After many months of persuasion, Dashrath's family agreed to send her away, but he decided he wanted her back, too. Dashrath went to meet the girl's family and offered them Rs 100 in exchange for taking her back home for "six years. After that, I will give you Rs 1,000." The girl's father was surprised by the offer but ultimately agreed. Dashrath built a hut on his farmland and his parents-in-law made sure to send their daughter home every morning. "We shared our joys and sorrows together," Manjhi said of the time he spent with her. "She looked after me a lot." When she became pregnant, she would be sent back to her parents so that her family could prepare for the child. Her husband would often come to nurse her back to health when she fell ill, "even if there was a storm or a flood". The couple went on to have two girls and a boy. They spent their time happily farming until the landlord arrived one day and 40 years after the marriage, he asked his tenant to go and clear away some of the hill next to his farm. This was because a new railway line was being built and an area needed to be cleared for a station. Manjhi took on this task but soon realized that it would take more than one person and that he would have to spend years just breaking up the rock. He decided that there had to be a better way. A stubborn man who would not give up Manjhi started working on the mountain as early as 1972 with only a hammer and chisel. He spent 18 hours a day hacking away at hard, solid rock. cfa1e77820
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