Goa, Aug. 1 -- He decided to plunge himself and lead the charge of the COVID brigade in Goa, much like the Light Cavalry Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War, which spurred Alfred Lord Tennyson to write his seminal poem 'Charge of the Light Brigade'.

The story of Dr Edwin Gomes, or at least the heroism of his act has shades of that Battle of Balaclava. The legendry Times, published an article about the battle in 1854 and wrote "The British soldier will do his duty, even to certain death, and is not paralyzed by the feeling that he is the victim of some hideous blunder". Tennyson, in his poem, used the word blunder "Some one had blunder'd"

Half a league, half a league,

Half a league onward,

All in the valley of Death ...