India, Nov. 11 -- Prabhakar Pathak

Today marks 351 years since 11 November 1675, the day Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur was executed at Chandni Chowk on the orders of Emperor Aurangzeb. The reason is well recorded.

A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits, led by Pandit Kirpa Ram, had travelled to Anandpur Sahib seeking protection from forced conversion. The Guru agreed to go to Delhi. Before him, three of his companions, Bhai Mati Das, Bhai Sati Das and Bhai Dayala Ji, were put to death. India remembers him as 'Hind di Chadar', the shield of Hind, because he gave his life so that others could follow their own faith.

The story usually stops there. It should not, because there is a second chapter that took place only a few hours later, and it involves a...