On Valentine’s Day, we share the love story of Bihar’s Bholanath Alok and Padma Rani. They are no more but their love story is immortal.
Valentine’s Day Special
14th February may appear as another random date to the uninitiated, but that is seldom the case for couples and lovebirds. February 14 has become interchangeable with the day of love and is celebrated annually all over the world as Valentine’s Day.
But apart from sharing gifts, letters, and flowers, love is totally a different feeling which can’t be expressed by words. There are real-life love stories that serve as a testament to the power of love and the importance of romance.
In this one-of-a-kind love story, elderly man Bholanath Alok had taken a vow that the day his body would be cremated after his death, the urn of his wife’s ashes should be kept on his dead body. He believed this would mean that their love would be eternal, even in death.
Bholanath’s wishes were granted. When he died on June 24, 2022, his son-in-law Ashok Singh fulfilled his wish, reported News 18.
Bholanath Alok and Padma Rani
It all started when Padma Rani, Bholanath Alok’s wife, died on May 25, 1990. After this, for 32 years, Bholanath kept his wife’s urn hanging in a mango tree near his house in Sipahi Tola as a sign of his eternal love. Every day he would come to his wife’s urn and offer a rose and express his love by bowing down before it after burning Agarbatti sticks.
Ashok Singh, Bholanath’s son-in-law, thinks his father-in-law set an example for future generations. “My father-in-law’s love and dedication towards his wife teaches us an important lesson,” he said.
“People may think that this love story came to an end when my father-in-law bid adieu to this world. But to be honest, a new chapter has started in this love story. After Babuji’s death, we mixed his and mother’s remains in the same urn and tied it from the same mango tree where Babu had kept my mother-in-law’s urn. Babuji is no longer in this world, but we have maintained his tradition,” Ashok added.
All the members of the house enter the house or go out only after paying respect to this place.
