Essay writtingThe role of soldiers carmy in protective in our country
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Guarantor of the Idea of India: The Indian soldier is the epitome of courage and unflinching devotion to duty. He is scrupulously honest, truly secular and completely apolitical. With an ethos of hard work, simple needs and frugal habits, more than any other group or community in the country, the soldier embodies and represents the idea of India. Loved and respected by his countrymen, the Indian soldier is a role model for the people of India. In hail, sleet and snow, in icy blizzards and pouring rain, he stands sentinel over the nation’s borders in the high Himalayas. He maintains a silent and lonely vigil along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). He has held the Saltoro Ridgeline west of the Siachen Glacier, the highest battlefield in the world, with unflinching determination for over 30 years and denied the adversary the opportunity to alter the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL). He has repeatedly shown his mettle while meeting the Chinese challenge along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with Tibet.
From the snow-clad and wind-swept mountains of the Himalayas in the north, to the steaming hot and humid jungles of the seven sisters in the north-east and the shimmering sands of the burning Thar Desert in the west, he never lowers his guard. Along the LoC, he braves daily spells of intermittent small arms and mortar fire from a wily enemy. Sometimes he lives through many days of heavy artillery shelling when the very earth around him shakes ominously. Despite the omnipresent danger, hardships and privations of life on the nation’s troubled frontiers, he stands tall and firm. Stoic and resolute in the face of adversity, his courage never wavers, his spirit never flags.
Guardian of the Frontiers
The Indian soldier stopped the rape of Baramulla by Pakistani Razakars in 1947 and saved Srinagar from a similar fate. He took tanks to the 12,000 feet high Zoji La pass in 1948 to push back Pakistani invaders. He fought off the Chinese despite being ill-clad for a winter in the high Himalayas and despite being armed with World War II vintage .303 rifles. In a battle that has gone down in military history as the ultimate example of courage under fire, he fought to the last man and last round at Rezang La, near Chushul in Ladakh, in 1962 (see box). Though he was heavily outnumbered and surrounded, he stood fast against the Chinese at Walong.
He smashed Pakistan’s Patton tanks at Asal Uttar in 1965 with obsolete recoilless rifles. He stormed the invincible citadel at Haji Pir pass on the Pir Panjal range. At Nathu La in 1967 and at Wangdung in 1986, the glint of his bayonet made the Chinese blink. In 1971, he raced across the Sunderbans to liberate Bangladesh and gave back to the oppressed Bengali people their freedom and their dreams.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with him, his naval mates sank the Ghazi and left Karachi burning. His air force brothers flew rings around Pakistan’s Sabres and Starfighters (gifted by America) with their tiny Gnats.
In 1999, his indomitable courage in the face of daunting odds and steadfast devotion to duty triumphed over Pakistan’s regular soldiers entrenched on the mountain tops on the Indian side of the LoC in Kargil district of J&K. As the world watched in awe, he manned his guns unflinchingly under the very nose of the enemy and, firing in the pistol-gun ‘direct fire’ role, he blew every bunker on Tiger Hill and half a dozen