A thought provoking note : It has been about 48 hours since the breaking news of Nobel Peace prize to Mr. Kailash Satyarthi. Some facts regarding this man are as under: He gave up his career as an electrical engineer. He began his mission of fighting for childrens rights in 1980 i.e he has been at it for 34 years now. 2 of his colleagues got murdered and he himself also got attacked. Which means forget the Nobel prize, being alive itself is a huge award for him. He won his first award in 1984 and since then he won about 8 awards. And guess how many of those awards were given by his motherland for his yeoman service? ZERO! During these 34 years approximately 4000 Padma awards and about 25 Bharat Ratnas and many more awards have been doled out to many, but Mr Satyarthi is not one of them. Because you see, our standards are very high!! During the same period dozens of eminent people have been nominated to Rajya Sabha and to many other such prestigious positions. But once again Mr Satyarthi did not qualify for any of them. No PM ever felt it important to call him for discussions ( even as they were meeting many film stars) and ask him what needs to be done to give our children their rights!! And guess who nominated him for the Nobel prize this year? Indian Parliament? BJP? Congress? RSS? MP government ( his home state)? Rajiv gandhi Foundation? NO. He was nominated by the EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT! So in nutshell, he won this Nobel peace prize entirely due to his own efforts and despite the Government/Media/Civil Society (largely, because some people from the civil society did help him along). But today we all want a piece of his fame and glory! And today our leaders are saying, it is a recognition of our nation !!!!!!! N@win KK
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:04:39 +0000
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