With reference to the report, “Human shield incident: Amit Shah lauds Major Gogoi for saving people’s life” (May 26), in all the wars that the Indian Army has fought since Independence, it has lived up to the ideal: “Theirs not to reason why/theirs but to do and die.”
Can we expect our jawans and officers to turn their left cheek when slapped on the right by stone-pelters in Jammu and Kashmir? Surely, it is not the contention of our bleeding heart liberals that only stone throwers are entitled to human rights and not our soldiers, who maintain law and order in

