Citizen as Soldier Girish Karoad Given that our armed forces have helped preserve Indian democracy by their strict neutrality to the political scene, it is strange that we today see a proliferation of political parties and philosophies that hold up the soldier as a model for the ordinary citizen. The citizen is told that he has to be a soldier in some cause or the other: language, religion, state or whatever. It is 'we' against 'they', The pronouns are always in plural for plurals make violence easier.
