Upala Sen | | Published 31.01.21, 02:53 AM
West Bengal is still reeling from the surprise invocation of Ram on Subhas Bose’s birth anniversary celebrations at Victoria Memorial Hall. Now in war, the war cry and its rhetoric is no less important than the weaponry. The cries might fall on the ear as ululations, whoops, hisses, but they are wrapped in some primeval way with the senses and the sentiments. There was the rebel cry from the American Civil War. And “hurrah” was used by Danish and German forces in the 19th century.
Ei ei oh is a Japanese war cry and
hooyah was used by the US Navy. War cries must have involved a certain art, for in his epics even the great Homer identifies Menelaus as “master of the war cry” and Diomedes too.
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