Jerome told me about a story that he learned from a programme he watched on Channel News Asia a few days ago.
An Indian woman fell and injured herself on her way to the town centre as she had to climb a mountain along the way. Out of love for his wife, her husband decided to construct a tunnel through the mountain to make the journey a safer and shorter one. With just a chisel and a hammer, he began to dig a tunnel out of the mountain. Incredible? Impossible? Crazy? Even his family members thought that he was crazy. His wife helped him at first but eventually gave up and then passed away because of an illness. He continued his impossible mission and finally managed to dig a tunnel through the mountain. The feat took him 27 years. He was given the highest honour by the government for his incredible work. Engineers looked at the tunnel and said it's impossible to dig the tunnel without the use of modern machineries. But he did it. Out of sheer determination or obsession?
Found that there were 2 versions of the story I found on-line:
1) His wife injured herself while on her way to deliver food to him. A hospital was later built and named after his wife after he dug the tunnel. Story1
2) He dug the tunnel in honour of his dead wife who could not get to the hospital in time because of the mountain. story2
Apparently, inspired by this story, another Indian man also spent 14 years to dig through another tunnel in another mountain just so he can park his truck in front of his house!
Let no mountain stand in your way!
12 years ago
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