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Hindu Fearlessness through the Ages

Hindu Fearlessness through the Ages One hears it all too often:  ‘Hindus are cowards, they only deserve what they are suffering.’ Mahatma Gandhi said it clearly enough:  ‘The Muslim is a bully, the Hindu a coward.’  But Hindus are by no means cowards. Hindus as such have their problems, but lack of bravery is not one of them. Look at the  Bangladesh war of 1971. The Pakistani Army was brave enough as long as its job consisted in raping Bengali women, but as soon as the Indian Army appeared on the  scene, all they could do was to flee and to surrender. The Majority Hindu Army liberated the oppressed Muslims and the persecuted Hindus of Bangladesh. Or look at the Kargil war of 1999. Though  the  politicians forbade the Indian soldiers from taking the war into enemy territory by crossing the Pak  border, the Indian Army besieged the Kargil mountain which the Pak invaders had taken, and  reconquered it. Let us look  at the histor...