El Hombre que Partió una Montaña con las Mano | Una Historia Real que Cambió al Mundo
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A small'}, {'start': '21.766', 'end': '22.666', 'text': 'man, dark-skinned, with a'}, {'start': '22.866', 'end': '24.866', 'text': 'face tanned by the sun'}, {'start': '24.966', 'end': '27.133', 'text': 'and hands hardened by years of labor'}, {'start': '27.266', 'end': '28.466', 'text': 'in the relentless heat.'}, {'start': '29.133', 'end': '32.966', 'text': 'His village of Gelaur was isolated between hills and cliffs,'}, {'start': '33.300', 'end': '34.733', 'text': 'disconnected from the rest of the world'}, {'start': '34.933', 'end': '37.600', 'text': 'by a mountain that rose like a natural wall.'}, {'start': '38.266', 'end': '39.166', 'text': 'To get out, you'}, {'start': '39.533', 'end': '42.200', 'text': 'had to walk for hours across stony terrain. With'}, {'start': '42.466', 'end': '43.266', 'text': 'no roads,'}, {'start': '43.400', 'end': '44.733', 'text': 'no bridges, no help'}, {'start': '45.333', 'end': '46.133', 'text': 'from the government.'}, {'start': '46.266', 'end': '47.466', 'text': "This town didn't exist"}, {'start': '47.866', 'end': '50.100', 'text': 'on maps, it was just a nameless dot,'}, {'start': '50.566', 'end': '51.666', 'text': 'but for Dashrath, it'}, {'start': '52.000', 'end': '54.366', 'text': 'was his home. He lived there with his wife,'}, {'start': '54.733', 'end': '55.666', 'text': 'Falguni Devi,'}, {'start': '56.266', 'end': '58.766', 'text': 'the only person who offered him a warm refuge'}, {'start': '58.933', 'end': '61.366', 'text': 'in an existence marked by dust and poverty.'}, {'start': '62.166', 'end': '64.466', 'text': 'Falconi was not only his life partner, she'}, {'start': '64.666', 'end': '65.500', 'text': 'was his comfort.'}, {'start': '65.766', 'end': '66.566', 'text': 'Their peace was'}, {'start': '67.066', 'end': '70.333', 'text': 'together. They rose with the sun and  They worked in the fields'}, {'start': '70.500', 'end': '72.800', 'text': 'until the moon was the only thing left in the sky'}, {'start': '73.200', 'end': '74.533', 'text': 'even though they had almost nothing'}, {'start': '74.733', 'end': '75.933', 'text': 'they shared smiles'}, {'start': '76.100', 'end': '77.166', 'text': 'a cup of rice'}, {'start': '77.466', 'end': '78.533', 'text': 'a word of affection'}, {'start': '79.100', 'end': '80.300', 'text': 'in the midst of misery'}, {'start': '80.600', 'end': '82.733', 'text': 'they had created a bubble of dignity'}, {'start': '83.400', 'end': '84.866', 'text': 'sometimes they dreamed together they'}, {'start': '85.133', 'end': '86.600', 'text': 'dreamed of a better life'}, {'start': '86.900', 'end': '89.466', 'text': 'with a school for their children that had not yet arrived'}, {'start': '89.733', 'end': '91.166', 'text': 'with a medical clinic'}, {'start': '91.200', 'end': '94.066', 'text': 'to avoid the tragedies that always haunted the poor'}, {'start': '94.733', 'end': '95.533', 'text': 'but above all they'}, {'start': '95.866', 'end': '99.100', 'text': 'dreamed that one day someone would build a road'}, {'start': '99.600', 'end': '101.400', 'text': 'a road that would save lives'}, {'start': '101.766', 'end': '103.133', 'text': 'but that someone never came'}, {'start': '103.933', 'end': '106.066', 'text': 'one day under the sweltering summer sun'}, {'start': '106.266', 'end': '106.966', 'text': 'Falguni made her'}, {'start': '106.966', 'end': '110.066', 'text': 'way with difficulty to take Dashrath his lunch'}, {'start': '110.400', 'end': '113.166', 'text': 'as always she took the narrow path through the mountains'}, {'start': '113.533', 'end': '116.666', 'text': 'the only way between her house and the field where he worked she'}, {'start': '117.700', 'end': '118.966', 'text': 'knew it was dangerous'}, {'start': '119.166', 'end': '121.700', 'text': 'that the loose stones could 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'barely breathing he'}, {'start': '147.066', 'end': '148.400', 'text': 'carried her on his shoulders'}, {'start': '148.533', 'end': '149.400', 'text': 'not thinking about the pain'}, {'start': '149.800', 'end': '150.933', 'text': 'not thinking about the kilometers'}, {'start': '151.200', 'end': '153.100', 'text': 'not thinking about anything he ran he'}, {'start': '153.400', 'end': '156.366', 'text': 'shouted for help he begged for a way'}, {'start': '156.533', 'end': '159.500', 'text': 'but the nearest hospital was 55km away there'}, {'start': '160.100', 'end': '160.966', 'text': 'were no vehicles there'}, {'start': '161.266', 'end': '162.066', 'text': 'was no time'}, {'start': '162.700', 'end': '164.266', 'text': 'Falconi died on the road'}, {'start': '164.500', 'end': '165.933', 'text': "in her husband's arms"}, {'start': '166.366', 'end': '168.266', 'text': 'drowned in blood and despair'}, {'start': '168.866', 'end': '171.400', 'text': "falguni's death was not just a tragedy it"}, 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invisible'}, {'start': '244.666', 'end': '245.900', 'text': 'the stones resisted'}, {'start': '246.166', 'end': '247.500', 'text': 'the mountain mocked him'}, {'start': '247.700', 'end': '249.566', 'text': 'his body hurt like never before'}, {'start': '250.300', 'end': '251.533', 'text': 'sometimes he fell exhausted'}, {'start': '251.733', 'end': '254.166', 'text': 'without strength sometimes he thought about giving up'}, {'start': '254.466', 'end': '255.766', 'text': 'but then he looked at the sky'}, {'start': '255.900', 'end': '258.933', 'text': "he remembered Falguni's face and got up again he"}, {'start': '259.466', 'end': '260.866', 'text': 'knew he had to do it'}, {'start': '261.100', 'end': '262.400', 'text': 'not for him for her for the'}, {'start': '262.700', 'end': '264.800', 'text': 'others for those who would come after'}, {'start': '265.300', 'end': '266.333', 'text': 'a month passed'}, {'start': '266.500', 'end': '267.733', 'text': 'then two then six'}, {'start': 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He'}, {'start': '309.066', 'end': '310.933', 'text': 'began to get up before the sun'}, {'start': '311.133', 'end': '311.933', 'text': 'and went to bed'}, {'start': '312.066', 'end': '313.933', 'text': 'long after the moon had set'}, {'start': '314.066', 'end': '315.666', 'text': 'behind the silhouette of the mountain.'}, {'start': '316.466', 'end': '317.466', 'text': 'Blow after blow,'}, {'start': '317.600', 'end': '319.133', 'text': 'with fierce patience,'}, {'start': '319.300', 'end': '320.666', 'text': 'he bored into the stone.'}, {'start': '320.866', 'end': '323.566', 'text': 'At first, people pointed at him with mockery or pity. They'}, {'start': '323.900', 'end': '325.466', 'text': 'began to feel something different.'}, {'start': '326.200', 'end': '327.466', 'text': 'First, it was curiosity,'}, {'start': '328.066', 'end': '329.266', 'text': 'then it was respect.'}, {'start': '329.933', 'end': '331.500', 'text': 'Finally, it was astonishment.'}, {'start': '331.966', 'end': '333.800', 'text': 'Children, who saw him as crazy,'}, {'start': '333.900', 'end': '336.100', 'text': 'began to imitate him with smaller stones.'}, {'start': '336.933', 'end': '338.566', 'text': 'Women brought him water.'}, {'start': '338.800', 'end': '341.266', 'text': 'Some old people approached him to watch in silence,'}, {'start': '341.333', 'end': '343.400', 'text': 'as if witnessing a sacred rite.'}, {'start': '343.966', 'end': '345.400', 'text': 'No one understood how it continued,'}, {'start': '345.800', 'end': '347.200', 'text': 'but everyone saw what he achieved.'}, {'start': '347.400', 'end': '348.766', 'text': 'An opening, a tunnel,'}, {'start': '348.966', 'end': '350.400', 'text': 'a path that had not existed before.'}, {'start': '351.100', 'end': '351.900', 'text': 'Months passed,'}, {'start': '352.466', 'end': '353.266', 'text': 'then years.'}, {'start': '353.566', 'end': '356.533', 'text': '1, 2, 3, and Dashrath was still there.'}, {'start': '356.933', 'end': '358.533', 'text': 'His body became even thinner,'}, {'start': '358.666', 'end': '360.933', 'text': 'more tanned. His beard grew untidy.'}, {'start': '361.266', 'end': '363.800', 'text': 'His clothes were  rags that barely covered his body'}, {'start': '363.966', 'end': '364.766', 'text': 'but his hands'}, {'start': '364.866', 'end': '366.100', 'text': 'his hands were something else'}, {'start': '366.700', 'end': '367.500', 'text': 'they were tools they'}, {'start': '367.900', 'end': '369.066', 'text': 'were living steel'}, {'start': '369.266', 'end': '371.733', 'text': 'the hammer and the chisel were no longer extensions they'}, {'start': '371.933', 'end': '373.000', 'text': 'were part of his body he'}, {'start': '373.533', 'end': '375.600', 'text': 'used them with the precision of a surgeon'}, {'start': '375.700', 'end': '376.966', 'text': 'with the rage of a hurricane'}, {'start': '377.133', 'end': '379.533', 'text': 'and with the love of a father who protects his children'}, {'start': '380.666', 'end': '381.866', 'text': 'after 5 years'}, {'start': '382.000', 'end': '384.100', 'text': 'the crack was now a real opening a'}, {'start': '384.600', 'end': '385.600', 'text': 'child could fit in it'}, {'start': '385.900', 'end': '386.766', 'text': 'then a donkey'}, {'start': '387.266', 'end': '388.066', 'text': 'then a man'}, {'start': '388.666', 'end': '390.166', 'text': 'dashrath began to see the shape he'}, {'start': '390.466', 'end': '393.766', 'text': 'visualized a corridor 9m wide and over 100m long'}, {'start': '394.100', 'end': '395.200', 'text': 'a passage wide'}, {'start': '395.333', 'end': '396.133', 'text': 'enough'}, {'start': '396.300', 'end': '398.566', 'text': 'safe enough for people to cross without fear'}, {'start': '398.900', 'end': '401.466', 'text': 'his goal was not to cut through the mountain out of vanity'}, {'start': '401.700', 'end': '404.266', 'text': 'but to open a wound through which life could enter he'}, {'start': '404.566', 'end': '405.766', 'text': 'knew that if he succeeded'}, {'start': '406.100', 'end': '406.933', 'text': 'everything would change there'}, {'start': '407.566', 'end': '408.966', 'text': 'would be access to hospitals'}, {'start': '409.266', 'end': '410.333', 'text': 'markets schools there'}, {'start': '410.866', 'end': '411.666', 'text': 'would be hope it'}, {'start': '412.166', 'end': '414.666', 'text': "didn't take long for the attention of outsiders to arrive"}, {'start': '414.933', 'end': '418.266', 'text': 'a local journalist heard the story and traveled to hellaur'}, {'start': '418.566', 'end': '420.200', 'text': 'when he saw the man hitting the stone'}, {'start': '420.300', 'end': '421.800', 'text': 'with his bloody hands'}, {'start': '422.100', 'end': '423.533', 'text': 'he believed it to be a legend'}, {'start': '424.700', 'end': '426.166', 'text': 'but when he discovered it was real he'}, {'start': '426.566', 'end': '427.566', 'text': 'wrote an article'}, {'start': '428.000', 'end': '429.266', 'text': 'and that article flew it'}, {'start': '429.533', 'end': '430.566', 'text': 'reached patna'}, {'start': '430.733', 'end': '431.700', 'text': 'the state capital'}, {'start': '432.066', 'end': '433.166', 'text': 'then delhi'}, {'start': '433.700', 'end': '434.000', 'text': 'soon'}, {'start': '434.000', 'end': '436.366', 'text': 'the newspapers of india  They were talking about the man who broke'}, {'start': '436.666', 'end': '437.566', 'text': 'mountains for love.'}, {'start': '438.200', 'end': '439.700', 'text': 'Dashrath was interviewed. They'}, {'start': '439.933', 'end': '441.133', 'text': 'took him to the radio. They'}, {'start': '441.400', 'end': '442.766', 'text': 'asked him why he did it. His'}, {'start': '443.466', 'end': '445.766', 'text': 'eyes were red and his voice firm. He'}, {'start': '445.900', 'end': '446.700', 'text': 'only replied'}, {'start': '447.000', 'end': '448.600', 'text': "because I don't want another falguni to"}, {'start': '448.800', 'end': '450.000', 'text': 'die because of a stone.'}, {'start': '450.600', 'end': '451.600', 'text': 'The local government,'}, {'start': '451.900', 'end': '453.133', 'text': 'pressured by the press,'}, {'start': '453.300', 'end': '456.200', 'text': 'wanted to help him. 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Dashrath Manji passed away at the age of 73.'}, {'start': '1046.500', 'end': '1049.200', 'text': 'His body was escorted by an official motorcade,'}, {'start': '1049.566', 'end': '1051.566', 'text': 'accompanied by  Ministers, students,'}, {'start': '1051.800', 'end': '1054.500', 'text': 'neighbors, and people who traveled from far and wide'}, {'start': '1054.600', 'end': '1055.866', 'text': 'just to thank him.'}, {'start': '1056.333', 'end': '1060.000', 'text': 'His simple coffin was covered with the Indian flag. He'}, {'start': '1060.400', 'end': '1062.900', 'text': 'was cremated next to the mountain that watched him fight'}, {'start': '1063.000', 'end': '1063.966', 'text': 'for 22 years.'}, {'start': '1064.466', 'end': '1067.666', 'text': 'The Bihar state government declared a day of mourning.'}, {'start': '1067.966', 'end': '1070.300', 'text': 'The construction of a school that would bear his name was announced.'}, {'start': '1071.400', 'end': '1074.400', 'text': 'The road over his pass was completed and'}, {'start': '1074.533', 'end': '1076.600', 'text': 'officially renamed Dashrath Manjhi Path.'}, {'start': '1076.966', 'end': '1078.266', 'text': 'Today, in Gelaur,'}, {'start': '1078.466', 'end': '1079.766', 'text': 'there is a statue that remembers him. It'}, {'start': '1080.366', 'end': '1083.133', 'text': 'is not on a luxurious pedestal nor surrounded by marble. It'}, {'start': '1083.333', 'end': '1084.533', 'text': 'is at ground level'}, {'start': '1084.700', 'end': '1085.733', 'text': 'at the foot of the path.'}, {'start': '1086.366', 'end': '1087.000', 'text': 'In it,'}, {'start': '1087.000', 'end': '1090.000', 'text': 'Dashrath appears in full swing, hammer raised, his'}, {'start': '1090.166', 'end': '1092.366', 'text': 'forehead sweaty, and his gaze fixed.'}, {'start': '1092.900', 'end': '1093.933', 'text': 'Next to the sculpture,'}, {'start': '1094.166', 'end': '1095.133', 'text': 'a plaque says:'}, {'start': '1095.600', 'end': '1097.066', 'text': 'one man, one promise,'}, {'start': '1097.300', 'end': '1100.566', 'text': 'one path. But his legacy did not stop there.'}, {'start': '1100.900', 'end': '1102.600', 'text': 'In dozens of poor villages,'}, {'start': '1102.866', 'end': '1105.200', 'text': 'community leaders emerged who used his story'}, {'start': '1105.333', 'end': '1106.733', 'text': 'to mobilize their neighbors'}, {'start': '1107.566', 'end': '1110.766', 'text': 'in the classroom. 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At that moment, it'}, {'start': '1402.300', 'end': '1403.966', 'text': 'became clear that time does not erase'}, {'start': '1404.100', 'end': '1405.200', 'text': 'true giants, it'}, {'start': '1405.766', 'end': '1406.966', 'text': 'only makes them grow.'}, {'start': '1407.733', 'end': '1409.600', 'text': 'The story of Dashrath Manji'}, {'start': '1409.766', 'end': '1411.533', 'text': 'is not just a story of personal improvement,'}, {'start': '1411.966', 'end': '1413.266', 'text': 'it is a lifelong lesson'}, {'start': '1413.333', 'end': '1415.066', 'text': 'about the power of persistent action,'}, {'start': '1415.400', 'end': '1417.900', 'text': 'about the strength of love transformed into commitment,'}, {'start': '1418.133', 'end': '1419.766', 'text': 'and about the impact of humility. 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