Two women from Kerala went to Israel to care for an elderly couple.
Then October 7 ...
Hamas entered Kibbutz Nir Oz. Gunmen tried to force their way into the safe room. Sabitha Baby and Meera Mohanan had no weapons, no military training and, one assumes, no particular desire to become heroines before lunch.
So they held the door.
For hours.
That is the whole story, really, and it is magnificent.
Fifteen years earlier, in Mumbai, Sandra Samuel ran into the horror of Nariman House and carried two-year-old Moshe Holtzberg to safety after his parents were murdered.
India keeps appearing in these stories at the exact moment humanity is being tested.
Mumbai, 2008.
Nir Oz, 2023.
Same instinct.
Protect the innocent.
People like to describe India and Israel as strategic partners. Fine. Very diplomatic. Very respectable.
But treaties do not hold doors shut - love and respect however can change the world!
Link in the 1st comment!