While a little girl believes that 1 Teacher, 1 Book and 1 Pen can change the World, older men believe that aggression and lots of ordnance can do so. HAH! We are given to making emotive and over-simplified comparisons such as this one. The romanticism of the coincidental award of the Nobel Peace Prize to one citizen each of two countries which are historically hostile towards is lost on none. It lends itself to the suggestion that the peaceful option is naturally the better one in all situations. We are aware that Ms Malala Yousufzai, all of 17 years a age, once shot in the head by a terrorist for defying the decree that girls should not be going to school, is a brave lady, to make an understatement. She has been fighting for the right to education for girl children. We are aware that Mr Kailash Satyarthi, 60, passionate child rights activist, began his fight to free children from bonded labour, and for the empowerment of the marginalised poor children, 34 years ago. Essentially, empowerment of children has been the personal vision of both of them. Fighting against a lack of fairness of cruel and grotesque proportions, they hoped that their personal crusades would make the world a better place. Their peaceful struggle made them encounter attacks. The murderous attack on Malala and death threats to Satyarthi are known of. Both pushed their noble agenda forward, undeterred. A state of peace is the natural first choice in civilised society. However, this alone cannot be the blanket argument for peace in the region, where one country blatantly disregards every single tenet of civilised co-existence, and finds able if opportunistic allies in two of the strongest economies of the World. I feel that it is illogical on the part of peaceniks in India to get all sentimental and excited about the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. Malalas Pakistan has gone out of its way to provoke India with a combination of state sponsored terrorism and stupid military misadventures. They support their Armys we exist kind of stupid shooting across the border/ LC, taking innocent Indian lives. They do this time and again, despite getting their noses bloodied always, through military and diplomatic offensives. They have done so again, because it is a hatred of India that rallies them together. It appears that Pakistan is united behind their Army. When the going gets tough, they shift the onus on India, using the N-word, in order to push their K-word agenda. There is no message for Peace between our nations via this award. Not as long as Pakistan continues to irritate India thus. To imagine that there is a message is fallacious in that the process of chosing the awardees could not have been made with the intention of straightening out our thinking. Also, this is not thinking it through. It is to our economic disadvantage to enforce peace in the region through military superiority if it is never used in its entirety, for ever after. Money wasted on securing our borders from continuous aggression by Pakistan would be better spent on improving the lot of children on both sides. So, if they do want to get bashed up again so desperately, I believe that India should demonstrate its will to do so, then proceed to degrade their military capability systematically, thoroughly, sooner rather than later. Peace Prize or not.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:06:41 +0000
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