Nothing to feel proud about
The announcement of the Nobel "peace" prize today has left most people feeling uncomfortable rather than proud that one of their countryman was chosen for the award. There is good reason for this. The peace prize has become an object of ridicule in the last few decades because of the selection of people who were awarded that prize.
After WW2, the western spy agencies decided that the better approach to nurturing agents within a country was to openly give them financial aid instead of supporting them surreptitiously. This is the main reason many of these awards were born. The Nobel "peace" prize has become a conduit for New-York liberals to foster their brand of activism across the world by supporting those people that they think will help their cause. Usually the so-called social activism of the awardees is a fig-leaf to cover blatant sycophancy of the western, leftist, liberal agenda.
Take Obama for example! He was just elected president and they stuffed the award down his throat! Even he was embarrassed by that because he had done NOTHING yet! In fact he STILL has done nothing to deserve the peace prize! Unless you consider bombing the hell out of the tribal regions of Pakistan an act of peace! Which it may very well be, but not in the eyes of the New-york liberals!
Add to this list of spy-agency-payments, other awards like the Magsaysay, Booker prize etc., and you have clear pattern of saboteurs being supported by foreign agencies to disrupt economies in the name of activism.
Any day, any country on earth would be truly proud if their sons and daughters were chosen for a prize in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, or Mathematics. No matter how insignificant the prize, it would still be a proud moment because these are unrefuted scientific achievements (yes politics creeps into that too, but that is a different kind of politics - like the university politics! But also look up Abdus Salam if you want to know the stupidity of how even unquestioned science was not enough to make Pakistan feel proud!)
Yet, prizes given in literature, arts and social activism tend to produce uncomfortable and hesitant applause (from the usual quarters). The reason for this is, EVEN if the prize were well deserved, usually the art-form is hurtful to many people, and propagates a certain life-style. Invariably these awardees tend to be disliked by the society in which they live because they tend to appease their foreign spy-master who are giving them a grant to carry on with lifestyles not compatible with the society they live in, or indulge in anti-national activities in the open.
On the other hand, what about the social activist? Why are we not proud of that? The problem is, these so called social-activism that these people are involved in are hardly things a country would be proud of.
Take this latest prize for the child-labor activist, for example: What exactly are we going to say? "We the Indians are proud that millions of children are being used in child labor"? Or that, "after 67 years of independence the government has NOT been able to curb this terrible practice and we need a do-gooder to go all alone against this"? There is just no way to feel "proud" about this!
As for the other awardee in this year's Nobel peace prize the "achievements" are even more awkward and embarrassing! Getting shot in the head for going to school?! Being treated in England because Pakistan has no medical facility of note? Being pursued even after all this international furore, by fanatical religious zealots who have taken over the country?! What are the Pakistani's celebrating in this "prize"?
To top it all the Nobel; committee's own pronouncement about why they chose these two people is a clear indicator of how out of touch these Norwegians must be with the ground realities in India and Pakistan!
Today, with regards to Satyarthi and Yusufzai, they say : "The Nobel Committee regards it "as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism".
It is only their ignorance of both Hinduism and Islam, India and Pakistan that makes them say such idiotic things equating two completely unequal entities! India is nothing like Pakistan and Hindus are nothing Muslims! Yes, they all have problems in common but then, every country and every religion on earth has the same problems!
Do they even know if this guy is a Hindu? What kind of a hindu? Is he an atheist, leftist, "hindu-in-name-only-but-hates-hinduism" kind of hindu? Or is he a real Hindu who believes in Hindu spirituality? What about Malala? Is she a Muslim like 'la-ilahi-illallah-let's-behead-the-kafirs' type? Or is she something else - but the greater question being why BOTHER with religion?!
It has nothing to do with their activities - well, I stand corrected. In her case it had...religion is what got her shot in the face, near-to-death, in the first place! Religion has nothing to do with the Indian at least.
Only these Europeans who have probably never met a real Hindu or Muslim in their lives, sitting far away from the scene can fool themselves that somehow this is some kind of a "message" that will reach both Hindus and Muslims! WHAT MESSAGE??!! Like we don't know that Child labor is a sad and terrible blot on our society? Or that the Pakistanis don't know that shooting little girls for going to school is a disgrace?!
Unfortunately Alfred Nobel did not institute a prize for stupidity. If he had, it would have surely gone to the committee that made that statement!
After WW2, the western spy agencies decided that the better approach to nurturing agents within a country was to openly give them financial aid instead of supporting them surreptitiously. This is the main reason many of these awards were born. The Nobel "peace" prize has become a conduit for New-York liberals to foster their brand of activism across the world by supporting those people that they think will help their cause. Usually the so-called social activism of the awardees is a fig-leaf to cover blatant sycophancy of the western, leftist, liberal agenda.
Take Obama for example! He was just elected president and they stuffed the award down his throat! Even he was embarrassed by that because he had done NOTHING yet! In fact he STILL has done nothing to deserve the peace prize! Unless you consider bombing the hell out of the tribal regions of Pakistan an act of peace! Which it may very well be, but not in the eyes of the New-york liberals!
Add to this list of spy-agency-payments, other awards like the Magsaysay, Booker prize etc., and you have clear pattern of saboteurs being supported by foreign agencies to disrupt economies in the name of activism.
Any day, any country on earth would be truly proud if their sons and daughters were chosen for a prize in Chemistry, Biology, Physics, or Mathematics. No matter how insignificant the prize, it would still be a proud moment because these are unrefuted scientific achievements (yes politics creeps into that too, but that is a different kind of politics - like the university politics! But also look up Abdus Salam if you want to know the stupidity of how even unquestioned science was not enough to make Pakistan feel proud!)
Yet, prizes given in literature, arts and social activism tend to produce uncomfortable and hesitant applause (from the usual quarters). The reason for this is, EVEN if the prize were well deserved, usually the art-form is hurtful to many people, and propagates a certain life-style. Invariably these awardees tend to be disliked by the society in which they live because they tend to appease their foreign spy-master who are giving them a grant to carry on with lifestyles not compatible with the society they live in, or indulge in anti-national activities in the open.
On the other hand, what about the social activist? Why are we not proud of that? The problem is, these so called social-activism that these people are involved in are hardly things a country would be proud of.
Take this latest prize for the child-labor activist, for example: What exactly are we going to say? "We the Indians are proud that millions of children are being used in child labor"? Or that, "after 67 years of independence the government has NOT been able to curb this terrible practice and we need a do-gooder to go all alone against this"? There is just no way to feel "proud" about this!
As for the other awardee in this year's Nobel peace prize the "achievements" are even more awkward and embarrassing! Getting shot in the head for going to school?! Being treated in England because Pakistan has no medical facility of note? Being pursued even after all this international furore, by fanatical religious zealots who have taken over the country?! What are the Pakistani's celebrating in this "prize"?
To top it all the Nobel; committee's own pronouncement about why they chose these two people is a clear indicator of how out of touch these Norwegians must be with the ground realities in India and Pakistan!
Today, with regards to Satyarthi and Yusufzai, they say : "The Nobel Committee regards it "as an important point for a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education and against extremism".
It is only their ignorance of both Hinduism and Islam, India and Pakistan that makes them say such idiotic things equating two completely unequal entities! India is nothing like Pakistan and Hindus are nothing Muslims! Yes, they all have problems in common but then, every country and every religion on earth has the same problems!
Do they even know if this guy is a Hindu? What kind of a hindu? Is he an atheist, leftist, "hindu-in-name-only-but-hates-hinduism" kind of hindu? Or is he a real Hindu who believes in Hindu spirituality? What about Malala? Is she a Muslim like 'la-ilahi-illallah-let's-behead-the-kafirs' type? Or is she something else - but the greater question being why BOTHER with religion?!
It has nothing to do with their activities - well, I stand corrected. In her case it had...religion is what got her shot in the face, near-to-death, in the first place! Religion has nothing to do with the Indian at least.
Only these Europeans who have probably never met a real Hindu or Muslim in their lives, sitting far away from the scene can fool themselves that somehow this is some kind of a "message" that will reach both Hindus and Muslims! WHAT MESSAGE??!! Like we don't know that Child labor is a sad and terrible blot on our society? Or that the Pakistanis don't know that shooting little girls for going to school is a disgrace?!
Unfortunately Alfred Nobel did not institute a prize for stupidity. If he had, it would have surely gone to the committee that made that statement!
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