Continuing with my tales about ‘the bravest of the braves’, let me share a few interesting snippets to reinforce the legend of a Johnny Gorkha. While many of these are apocryphal tales they do give us a glimpse of how the world views this breed of warriors at large. It is true that an act of bravery requires a certain degree of stupidity and a wee bit of insanity; or else, why would any rational person ever want to put his own life in peril voluntarily or deliberately, right? But, Gorkhas are neither stupid nor insane, that I can vouch for; they are simply brave.