Monday, December 28, 2009

Nobel Prize-How much nobel?

Nobel Prize- Name itself bring a ripple in every country each year (especially in India, particularly if some person with far far connection with India gets it). Its a worlds most prestigious prize, given to the person in 6 distinct area related to science art and culture, and it brings a huge fortune plus recognition and respect for the person who gets it. So whats the conclusion? You are not good enough or your contribution to science or society is not valuable, if you dont get nobel prize. but never mind, a few month in Oval office can bring you the nobel peace prize, but not the 40 years of struggle for freedom that also through non-violent method. The man who taught the world real meaning of peace and non-violence, who shows them a new way to achieve thier rightful right other than violence was never thought as an eligible candidate. But forget about him, i dont think any award in this world is eligible to accolade him. He is larger than life and way above these petty awards.Reading the news of Mr. Obama getting the nobel peace prize in newspaper left my mouth wide agape, i dont think even Mr. Obama will blame me for this. I am a huge fan of him, but that doesn’t make me gasp the logic behind nobel prize committee. “Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics, a statement released by the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, lauding his vision of a world without nuclear weapons”- So vision is all which matter in getting prize. Hey even I keep this vision of great, green, peaceful, unified and prosperous world, Are you listening Mr. committee person?Give me the nobel peace prize . I deeply appreciate the Mr. Obama’s good intensions and his policy but i think even he must be as surprise as me upon this development. he has not achieved anything substanstial in his tenure yet. Afganistan is in much more worse condition, Iraq is still burning, on climate change he have not yet achieved any consensus for emission cut, Iran is still obstinate and relationship with them are still not improved, Isareal and palesteian issues are still as it was in Bush era. What he have done till now is talk, Not even 1% of those talk has been implemented yet. I would agree to the argument that let us give him time to realise these all dream, but shouldn’t nobel committee wait till the time when affect of these talks come into reality. Well these is already done and cant be undone so just lets hope that in future Nobel Prize committe doesn’t face shame because of thier decision and Mr. Obama keeps thier hope.This year Nobel Prize brought a uproar even in India. Guess why? Its not that difficult, reason is given at the 2nd line of this blog. 60 years of independence has gone but we still dont find a true Indian to cheer for. Hence our search is still on to find some person with international recognition who have a slight indian connection to be proud on ourselves. Nobel prize for chemistry to Tamil Nadu-born Venkatraman Ramakrishnan brought a huge euphoria in country and especially in Tamilnadu but after the remarks made by Dr Ramakrishnan against this euphoria brought another debate in country, this time about his insensitivity towards his native country. God, when will we grow up? It is Dr Ramakrishnan’s choice to belonging to place, if he doesn’t feel connected to countrymen’s emotion why should we enforce it upon him. He has done a very right thing to us, we should take the lesson. We never stopped applauding Laxmi Mittal(one time Britain’s richest man) as Indian, but his son Aditya clearly said that he is not an Indian but a British national and we should understand that he is not. He is as foreigner to us as Gorden Brown. So lets learn to treat Dr Ramakrishnan’s achievent as we treat his fellow Thomas E Steitz (US)’s and Ada E Yonath (Israel)’s, who also got nobel prize in chemistry. Its very rightly said by him instead of applauding him we should focus on science and hence creating a condusive environment for generating nobel lauterate, who is true Indian. Then only we can be really proud on our fellow country men’s achievement. So stop fussing over NRI’s achievements and accept the fact that they are not indian and please lets not enforce indianity over them, its thier choice lets respect that.

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