`Death deprived Mahatma Gandhi of Nobel Peace Prize’..REALLY???!!!!!!

I recently read this piece of information somewhere on the internet... It contained a senior official at the nobel prize committe saying that Mahatma Gandhi was not awarded the nobel peace prize because he was assinated in 1948...

When asked Why was he not awarded the same earlier.., the man openly spoke about the British political pressure... since India was not a free country untill then and the "British Viceroys lobbied against Nobel...."
Even Jawahar Lal Nehru was nominated a whopping 11-times... But they thought it better to not award it to anybody for a particular year than award it to him... (and offend some of their *Big Bosses*!!! - Entirely my outlook on the incident.. may not be true! :)

Read on to find out more:


"Mahatma Gandhi did not get the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948, the year he was supposed to after being shortlisted five times, because he was assassinated, said Ole Danbolt Mjos, the chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee. Mjos confirmed this matter, on the committee’s records, during his current visit here as the guest of Bangladesh’s Nobel Peace Laureate and rural banking pioneer, Muhammad Yunus.

His reply as to why Gandhi did not get it posthumously was “not unequivocal”, said The Daily Star Tuesday.

Nobel is not generally given to anyone posthumously, he said in an interview, explaining that the one given to a former UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjoeld in 1961 was “a one-time affair and is not likely to be repeated”.

He said the committee had decided ‘unanimously’ on awarding Gandhi in 1948, but did not give it after he was assassinated Jan 30, 1948. The plan was abandoned, the newspaper said.
“For the first four, majority opinion made sure he did not come by the prize. But then, at the end of 1947, the Nobel Committee finally reached a unanimous decision that, come 1948, the Indian nationalist leader would be the recipient of the prize,” he told The Daily Star here.
Reports of that era pertaining to the short-listing say that India was then under the British rule and the British Viceroys lobbied against the Nobel being given to the foremost adversaries fighting for India’s freedom.

Nobody was conferred with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948, the website of the committee shows.

The Nobel committee chief was asked why Gandhi, the man from whom Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela learnt about non-violence, was never deemed qualified to be a Nobel laureate. While defending the sincerity and the transparency of the selection process of the awards over the years, Mjos conceded that there had been controversies surrounding many choices.

In 1936, the Nobel for a German caused fury to Hitler; and in 1975, Andrei Sakharov’s winning the prize pushed the Soviet leadership into apoplectic mode. And then you remember that much similar a reaction came from Nikita Khrushchev when in 1960 Boris Pasternak won the Nobel for Literature. In the end, Pasternak declined to accept the award and died heart-broken not much later, Mjos told the newspaper.

Mjos also accepted the “terrible reality of the state sometimes coming down hard on the individual whom the Nobel Committee honours”.

He cited the case of Aung San Suu Kyi, who has not travelled to Oslo to receive the prize and so has never delivered an acceptance speech. Perhaps the junta in Myanmar would have permitted her to leave the country and go to Norway?

However, Mjos said that unless she was to have a guarantee that she would be allowed back into the country after receiving the Nobel, Suu Kyi would not leave her homeland."

What Can WE Do About Terrorism..?!!!

Every average-joe detests terrorism... For it (symbolically) threatens his existense...
But he is scared of taking the tough road... leaving the task of protecting his @$$ to the security forces...
But it is impossible to have soldiers spying on every person in a country (I'm sure even China doesn't have such a thing where it is mandatory for able-bodied people to join security forces). Now most civilians aren't smart enough to figure who's lurking out there next door disguised as a software engineer or apprehend their fate that destiny has in store for them at the next intersection, bus-stop....

So how can a common man help..???

Well!! I liked this post by this person Khurshed Batliwala about the solutions he proposes...
http://bawandinesh.name/?p=293
I feel there is no other way but this to ensure sustainable peace... We can stop a terrorist dead in his tracks with a bullet through his heart but that does not change his heart... He still remains a TERRORIST... Amongst his mates he would be proudly referred to as a martyr... for having killed/maimed Kaafirs or non-believers.... He not only remains a terrorist at soul but also becomes an icon, a role-model, inspiring many others to follow... For amongst the followers of some ideologies in certain communities, torturing and killing people following other belief systems is the shortest-cut to God....

"A fire cannot stop a fire.. Violence cannot end violence... Violence Ends When Love Begins...."

Killing a terrorist hardens the resolve of a thousand others who see a commonality between themselves and the slain terrorist...
IFF there is a way to severe the thousand heads of the man-eating monster called Terrorism, it is through Love and Peace...

The way is to STOP THE TERRORIST SUPPLY.... Some would say, "Destroy the breeding-grounds and safe-havens.." while others would say, "Choke their financial pipelines.."
I would rather choose to follow Mr. Batliwala's way of "Killing the terrorist inside the man..."
When the people are educated, sane, rational and (truly) spiritual, no amount of hateful religious rhetoric would be able to make the youth turn to inhumanity....

And I nearly fell off my chair laughing after reading this one... :-)
http://bawandinesh.name/?p=309
Really! Kashmir was a predominantly Hindu region before the muslims came to India.. Even at the time of Indian/Pakistani Independence, Kashmir had a Hindu king Hari Singh... The Pakistani army had invaded Kashmir disguised as tribals and Hari Singh had opted to be with India if India helped Kashmir throw out the invaders... India did so and Kashmir became a part of India... And thus started a series of wars between India and Pakistan (I have seen one in my lifetime, don't know how many more are there to come..)

I can't see what rights does Pakistan have to claim Kashmir... The fact that Kashmir has been so grossly neglected by the previous governments in India is a completely different thing... More about that some other day when I get the urge to say something....

Nice Ones!!! ;-)

Here are some pictures I really liked...

(ps: With Full Credit & Respect to the Cartoonist Vikram Nandwani..)

The Terrorism Reload..

India : A Failing State??

The Nero of Bengal..

Whose Kabir?

Justice For The Rich..

The Legal Deal..

Happy Republic Day!!!

UFEA With A BANG!!!

True Reservation..

Vande Mataram!

(Nuclear) Co-operation or Compromise..

Unable..

Poor Dear!!!

Small Favour

The Tribal $..

"My" Mumbai..

The Indian "BLOWJOB"..

My Fateful Birthday...

Today is my Birthday.....

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A big day for many people......

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and another-day-to-SURVIVE for many others.....

I just realized just how many millions around the world hardly get anything to eat... even on their birthday....

Thought I should post something about them..... I don't need too many words to say what I want......

Ever even wondered WHY this happens....????

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BECAUSE....

Some of us love to do THIS....

They want a world like THIS...

& THIS....

& HOW ABOUT THIS....???

Don't think I'm a wierdo... meat-eating is just as harmful to world peace as is terrorism...

HOW???

Don't worry, I'm a pretty prolific writer... :-) would convince you of my arguments sometime later when I write about it... Till then...

Lets pray for the blast victims...

&

LETS DO SOMETHING ABOUT TERRORISM....

Lets, fix it... NOW!!!

If we are to Live....

Who owns the Indian media???

Everbody by now must be aware of the bias of National media on "Amarnath Land issue" in particular and Kashmir issue in general.
People in Jammu have been struggling for over 2 months now on this but they are neither heard nor been given any importance. On the other hand people in Kashmir get coverage in national media even when they burn tricolor and say that they are Pakistanis. If you merely look at the pictures appearing in the daily excelsior, and not even read text, you will get an idea what all Jammu people have been through. But thats it.. It stops there.. Nobody gets to know outside J&K what the reality is. This has always been happening and happened at the time of the forced migration of Kashmiri Pandits also.

Some startling facts about Indian media
The recent Gujrat elections have witnessed unaccountable money paid to media persons of both, print and electronic by Saudi Arabia to discredit Modi and the Hindutva forces, which the media did very faithfully without success. There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, the Indian ExpressGroup, the Hindustan Times Group, the Hindu group, the Anandabazar Patrika Group, the Eenadu Group, the Malayalam Manorama Group, the Mathrubhumi group, the Sahara group, the Bhaskar group, and the Dainik Jagran group. Let us see the ownership of different media agencies.

NDTV: A very popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because the Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan . Indian CEO Prannoy Roy is brother of Prakash Karat, General Secretary of the Communist party of India. His wife and Brinda Karat are sisters. India Today which used to be the only national weekly which supported BJP has now been bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with its branches all over the world and head quarters in US. The Church annually allocates $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeep Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

The Times group list: Times Of India, Mid-Day, Nav-Bharth Times, Stardust , Femina, Vijaya Times, Vijaya Karnataka, Times Now (24- hour news channel) and many more.. The Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. 'World ChristianCouncil' does 80 percent of the Funding, and an Englishman and an Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Mindois a close relative of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi.

Star TV: It is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne.

Hindustan Times: Owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartiya took over. Presently it is working in Collaboration with Times Group.

The Hindu: English daily, started over 125 years has been recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland. N.Ram's wife is a Swiss national.

Indian Express: Divided into two groups.The Indian Express and New Indian Express (southern edition) ACTS Christian Ministries have major stake in the Indian Express and latter is still with the Indian counterpart.

Eeenadu: Still to date controlled by an Indian named Ramoji Rao. Ramoji Rao is connected with film industry and owns a huge studio in Andhra Pradesh.

Andhra Jyothi: The Muslim party of Hyderabad known as MIM along with a Congress Minister has purchased this Telugu daily very recently.

The Statesman: It is controlled by Communist Party of India.

Kairali TV: It is controlled by Communist party of India (Marxist).

Mathrubhoomi: Leaders of Muslim League and Communist leaders have major investment.

Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle: Is owned by a Saudi Arabian company with its chief Editor M.J. Akbar.

Gujrat riots which took place in 2002 where Hindus were burnt alive, Rajdeep Sardesai and Bharkha Dutt working for NDTV at that time got around 5 Million Dollars from Saudi Arabia to cover only the Muslim victims which they did very faithfully. Not a single Hindu family was interviewed or shown on TV whose near and dear ones had been burnt alive, it is reported.

Tarun Tejpal of Tehelka.com regularly gets flat check from Arab countries to target BJP and Hindus only, it is said.

The ownership explains the control of media in India by foreigners.

The result is obvious.

PONDER OVER THIS...