Why Gandhi never got Nobel Prize?

Most of the ardent followers of Mahatma Gandhi have won Nobel Peace Prize but its irony he never got one, the latest being President Obama to get this prestige, but again why Gandhi wasn’t able to get it even nominated for five times . Committees give different reasons for why Gandhi wasn’t given the honor.

Mahatma Gandhi showed the world that anything can be achieved by non violence, how can this be ignored. He was nominated in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948. He was shortlisted thrice in final list too but committee gives their so called suitable reasons why he wasn’t selected as the recipient of Nobel Prize.

One of the committee member was also of the view that he was “No real politician or proponent of international law, not primarily a humanitarian relief worker and not an organizer of international peace Congress“

When Mahatma Gandhi was first nominated in 1937, the selection committee’s adviser Prof Jacob Worm-Muller was critical about him. “He is undoubtedly a good, noble and ascetic person -- a prominent man who is deservedly honored and loved by masses. There are sharp turns in his policies which can hardly be satisfactorily explained by his followers...He is a freedom fighter and a dictator, an idealist and a nationalist. He is frequently a Christ, but then, suddenly an ordinary politician,” he had commented, according to the Nobel Foundation.

Worm-Muller also quoted that he is not a consistent pacifist, his non violent policies are degenerating violence and anger.

Clearly the critics were able to find answers on whatever hypothetical background they kept their reasons, well talking about Mr. Obama isn’t it too early to give someone a peace Nobel Prize, whose scrutiny takes a hell lot mess to decide whether a person deserves it or not ,the commitee that is yet to realize the contribution of Gandhi for peace keeping had sorted out Obama's contibution pretty quickly . One thing I want to say if someone can achieve this via a small term work and if he/she happens to be in the most limelight job then I can say there are more American gentlemen who surely deserve Nobel Peace prize in future like Software Mogul BillG or Warren Buffet by donating money for Philanthrophic activites in developing nations . 

The important thing that comes out after such award that by not honoring Gandhi with Nobel Peace Prize, the importance of Gandhi, his values, his legacy will never diminish though the authenticity of award like Nobel will go down.

[The Quotes of Jacob Worm Muller taken from national daily The Hindu]

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The Lost Symbol..... really got lost

<Precautionary Caution: After reading this book I have got a LOST MY MIND SYNDROME, kindly be patient with my most bizzare posting of till date>

Last week had a trip to Delhi , one of the most memorable trip till date.
A day before from Delhi trip I got Dan Brown 's latest release "The Lost Symbol" in audio as well as textual format. Lost Symbol was my only literary support throughout the tour as I had nothing else. It's story is based on yet another secret society , this time one from America named Freemasonry. Same style -same plot- same suspense ...same same same, it can really can make you sick. Once again whenever Dan Brown want to tell you that something exciting gonna happen the lines are italicized where more adept thriller writers generally prefer to use words .

Today in morning I read in MTV tickr that this book created history as 1 million copies of it were sold on the first day of it release but nobody knows the figure how much copies were returned on next day.
Like the Angels and Demons (2000) and The Da Vinci Code(2003), The Lost Symbol takes you through mind blending puzzles, painting analysis and reveals hidden histories so that Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, could discover a Masonic treasure despite special squads are chasing him and a pyschotic killer who has kidnapped his dear friend and mentor.There is one thing that still is unresolved.

When will this Professor gonna rest?

Everyone can imagine a 46-year-old Harvard Professor's delivering lectures to students to appreciate hidden patterns and meanings present in the world around them but he also is the one who survived an antimatter explosion at Vatican and a Paris manhunt and uncovered the truth about the Holy Grail. Just not an average Professor.

I finished the book at the time when India got eliminated out of champions trophy. I wanted Robert Langdon now to come India and find out
"The Lost Form" of Indian cricket team. In India Robert Langdon can team up with with our own Chacha Chaudhary to solve mysteries and also for any calculative and analysis purpose they will not need a computer also , reason I think you better know. Also Langdon can investigate what's the reason behind Ashutosh Gowarikar's lengthy movie style, why can't he wrap up the things in less than 3 hours. Also another thing Langdon can investigate if there is really 12 rashies or they have end up showing round about more than two dozen rashies in What's your Rashee?

I think Dan Brown really is a kinda person who can write anything that looks ordinary may be one day he may write some book regarding a secret society that uses facebook or twitter or blogger.com as their medium of secret conversation or gathering.

Once again Brown do not attempted to create something fresh or new characterization, no big surprises in plot trajectory. Furthermore, so famous twists are not nearly as tantalizing as were in his previous works.There are several points where you feel Brown wants to persuade you to tell that his book is highly intellectual and profound , which is clearly not.

It's disappointing and over long . I want my money back. End of review

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Personality Recognition

Stuck with few personalities, if you can help me in recognizing the remaining ones..do comment or if I have recognized someone wrong do comment over it !

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The List
1: Jacques Verges
2: Dante Allghieri
3: Deng Xiaoping
4: Mother Teresa
5: Yul Brynner
6: Mikhail Gorbachev
7: Ferdinand Marcos
8: Kofi Annan
9: Liu Xiang
10: Prince Charles
11: Empress Dowager Cixi
12: Osama Bin Laden
13: George W. Bush
14: Luciano Pavarotti
15: Salvador Dali
16: John Wayne
17: Spartacus
18: Yasser Arafat
19: Marilyn Monroe
20: Marlon Brando
21: Fidel Castro
22: Laozi
23: Che Guevara
24: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
25: Zhou Enlai
26: Napoléon Bonaparte
27: Mao Zedong
28: Marie Curie
29: Abraham Lincoln
30: Genghis Khan
31: Pablo Picasso
32: Steven Spielberg
33: Friedrich Nietzsche
34: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
35: Karl Marx
36: William Shakespeare
37: Leonardo da Vinci
38: Robert Oppenheimer
39: Henri Matisse
40: Joseph Stalin
41: Elvis Presley
42: Franklin D. Roosevelt / Jorge Luis Borges /?
43: Winston Churchill
44: Bruce Lee
45: James Garfield
46: Margert Thatcher
47: Peter the Great
48: Charles de Gaulle
49: Bill Clinton
50: Maxim Gorky
51: Lin Biao
52: Solomon
53: Vladimir Lenin
54: Guan Yu
55: Cui Jian
56: Aristotle / Plato/ Homer / Socrates
57:
58: Pelé
59: Adolf Hitler
60: Saddam Hussein
61: Ludwig van Beethoven
62: Audrey Hepburn
63: Benito Mussolini
64:
65: Lei Feng
66: Henry Ford
67: Charlie Chaplin
68: Ernest Hemingway / Charles Bukowski
69: Sun Yat-sen
70: Deng Xiaoping
71: Sigmund Freud
72: Mike Tyson
73: B. F. Skinner
74: Chiang Kai-shek
75: Stamford Raffles
76: Vladimir Putin
77: Lu Xun
78: Lewis Carroll / Hans Christian Andersen
79: Queen Elizabeth II
80: Shirley Temple
81: Leo Tolstoy
82: Albert Einstein
83: Li Bai
84: Moses
85: Confucius
86:
87: Mahatma Gandhi
88: Claude Monet
89: Dwight Eisenhower
90: Vincent Van Gogh
91: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
92: Marcel Duchamp
93: Michael Jordan
94: Ariel Sharon
95: Hideki Tojo
96:
97: Yue Fei
98:
99: Qin Shi Huang
100: Run Run Shaw
101: Samuel Adams
102: Rabindranath Tagore
103: Moltke the Younge
104: Jacob

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The Great Indian Elections

The election 2009 showed a drastic paradigm shift. The voter didn't became pappu and showed the political puppeteers that the vote of the common man still counts. Even though voting percentage was poor, majority of population didn't voted because of intense heat of summer or due to frustration from fraudulent and deceptive promises of the leaders. One of the important things that derived from this election was now the voter has became mature, voters gave vote to whom they thought was right according to them in spite they clap at the slapstick jokes of the leaders or the dialogues delivered by showbiz personalities that give their special appearances in rallies as their full presence didn't works in films. The point is distraction is not working with the voters anymore now. Probably the long pertaining frustration has made this change but however it came it is positive. Specifically in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar where the term "Bahuballi" is a standard political term , for the first time people have showed their vote power to them and rejected them from entering into the Country's parliament. The indecent word usage also didn't worked for politicians. This election has also given reward to the people who spent their time in grass-root level whether it may be Nitish Kumar or Rahul Gandhi. The intentions of the competitors were well judged by the voters. Now the point is clear you do development you get the vote it doesn't count how much you spend in electoral promotions.


The conversion of Hindutva politics or other religional politics to Nationalistic Politics is the need of the hour for our nation. Currently all the neighbours are not in a stable condition. Present conditions of Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka may result in any future impact to our country. So, it is very necessary to be alert and united. Another factor that came from this election is that people want stability in government. However this point is still not clear in totality as till date UPA hasn't confirmed what will be the allies of this time but there is an indication of this. Also this elections made the Communist Flag to go down and there is a little hope that it will be flutter again in high skies.Worries on inflation rearing its head again, limited headroom for fresh fiscal stimulus and the upheaval in global financial scenario face the new Manmohan Singh government even though the stock markets are on a roll. Indeed it will be an uphill task.We can hope that the new government will appoint agile and capable minds that will make the proper decisons for the country.

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Who am I ??

Two day before Valentine Day , Google came with a logo which many lovers thought of as it is a symbol of love showing love birds but rather it was Darwin's finches dedicated to the 200^th anniversary of the man who gave the theory of evolution. He is having a relevant part in our lives, whenever we talk about faith and stand for religion, we are against Darwin. Whenever we say we all are God's creation then Darwin opposes us saying if all are God's creation then why he created some humans black and some white, some long heighted and some with short heights. Thus, Darwin comes in our life by some way or other.

Darwin was of very inquisitive mind from his childhood. He used to collect insects of various species in his house's backyard. Darwin was forced to study medical science but he never felt it as his cup of tea, later his father sent him to become a priest but there also he never felt as if he was made for it. His burning zeal to know how species evolved led him to a legendary voyage that unravelled the mystery of nature's evolutionary tale. If apple gave idea to Newton for gravitation, similarly the finches at Galapagos Islands struck the mind of Darwin to think why all the finches have different beaks and colours. He concluded that all finch species (a total of 13 were on that island) have different beaks because they used to have different food habits in-spite of living at the same place. The shape and size of beaks were adapted to the food they eat and from there the unravelling evolutionary story of other species too commenced.

POSTMORTOM OF DARWINISM

The Darwin theory told that species developed favourable features in order to adapt to their surroundings no matter whether they it is weak or strong. Weaker too can survive if adapts and stronger may wipe out if doesn’t adapts.

Spencer interpreted it in a harsh way stating it as “The Survival of the Fittest” i.e. only who is strong can live, rest don’t deserve life. Some fanatics and dictators took it a sense that caused world wars and slaughter of humanity all due to state the best survives. Another misinterpretation of Darwin’s theory is “Social Darwinism”, it states that all personal and social problems were inherited. The proponents of social Darwinism believed poverty and many other social ills were the result of bad genes. Adolf Hitler’s racial theories were based on social Darwinism. “The stronger has to rule and must not mate with the weaker,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf. “Only the born weakling can consider this cruel.” Social Darwinism was popular among many intellectuals in the nineteenth century, but has since been rejected. Subsequent research has undermined rather than supported the theories of Social Darwinism.

The religious and communal leaders took it in their manner by declaring a community majority and one minority and stating a caste or creed as upper class and other backward class, just for sake of their vote banks and nothing else, thus depriving some sections from achieving basic necessities of life. The important point that missed in this segregation theory is that why we segregate, if we are different then we need to understand why we are different and what is the level of this distinction. The racial, physical, cultural difference is all due to nature and one’s origins but humanity never has such things and is far above any distinction by nature and this is not to be forgotten at any case.

Finally I want to conclude that this Darwin’s birth anniversary be not be remembered after a certain days but the important is the conclusion of this man’s ideas about nature and its creations. Distinction need to be understood, it must not be a weak link of society and should be taken in account with a broader perspective rather than taking it with a narrow mindset and segmenting society on its name.

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