



Last Friday India faced a heart breaking tragedy and resulted in the departure of sixty and above precious lives from this world, as a speeding train crushed over them. It was happened near Amritsar in Punjab, where people gathered to see the Ram Leela(a stage play that describing the story of epic Ramayana). Crowd was more t han the expected and people occupied their places in the nearby railway track not expecting a danger. But later unexpectedly train came and people couldn’t escape from the track, and several precious lives our near and dear once departed from us.

It touched my mind the story of beloved Dalbir Singh who saved eight lives and surrounded to death. People says that he was beloved to them in all way, he was the person handling the role of Ravana in the play Ram Leela. He would draw great appreciation and applause when he plays the role of Ravana even though it was the main negative role in the play(Ravana one who kidnapped Sita the wife of God Rama. This year also he was handling the same role as previous years. And he made the Ravana a hero by his very life in that sorrowful evening.

Last Friday changed the history of Ravana, when Dalbir Singh saved eight precious lives and surrendered himself to death, when he was wearing the dress of Ravana. When Dalbir Singh saw that train was approaching and people were standing on the railway track, he cried out in loud voice and rushed toward the track and started to push the people out of the track while saving others we was not aware of himself, provided a life giving service. I remember a quotation in the holy Bible “There is no great love than shed one’s life for others”.