India, Sept. 30 -- William Shakespeare penned in Hamlet "frailty thy name is woman". Not in India because women from time to time have shown their prowess. Now there is a giant step towards gender equality as women enter the battlefield. The responsibility to safeguard borders and sovereignty rests with the Armed forces and there can't be a better development than women given a level playing field to show their might. They are ready to play a more active role serving as the frontline of armed conflicts.

The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who recently made a surprise visit to Nimmoo in Ladakh amidst stand off with China, himself lauded women, "I am looking at women soldiers in front of me on the battlefield at the border and this view is ...