Commentary
MYREPUBLICA.com, 26 Jul 2009, PETER J KARTHAK
“Gurkha” is a magic word the world over for bravery, humble modesty in peacetime, steadfastness in war, practicing non-partisanship, maintaining apolitical outlooks, with no blemishes of rape, plunder, religious fundamentalism, no court martial on records, and no “unnatural” homosexual tendencies evident among their ranks and file.
“Lee Kuan Yew doesn’t trust us Chinese, Malays or Indians,” the taxi driver told me at the Changi Airport of Singapore. “He trusts only the Gurkhas!”
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