Let us Become - Proudly - Bayghairat,

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Let us Become - Proudly - Bayghairat

by Pervez Hoodbhoy

The same question put to Indian military officers would probably elicit the same answer. Historically, honour has driven armies to fight battles. Even as the officer spoke, my thoughts wandered to The Charge of the Light Brigade. During the Crimean War of 1854, wave after wave of honour-charged British soldiers rode their horses into the mouths of Russian guns which, of course, promptly mowed them down. Tennyson later immortalized the slain men in his famous poem: "All the world wonder'd. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade."

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