A soldier stands guard near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the India Gate monument in New Delhi yesterday. India Gate, originally called the All India War Memorial, bears the names of some 70,000 Indian soldiers who died during World War I in “France and Flanders, Mesopotamia and Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east,” as inscribed on the memorial’s arch. Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a small Balkans conflict that went global with the German invasion of neutral Belgium in August 1914.
August 04, 2014 | 08:36 PM