Mahatma’s Nobel

Press Trust of India, Delhi, has released that, ‘Nobel prize panel regrets not honoring Mahatma Gandhi’. We should congratulate the Nobel committee for admitting its mistake. However, we should take it as a lip service, devoid of any serious concern for Mahatma, or the causes he championed. Mahatma was proposed for the honor , but was denied Nobel prize, in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947, and 1948, a total of five times. Mahatma
should have got this prize all five times, and a total of $5 million. If the Nobel Committee is sincere, they should install a very huge statue of Mahatma Gandhi, out in the open, in front of the building, the Nobel Museum, and inscribe on it, ‘We missed awarding prize to Mahatma Gandhi five times’. That should do it.
But we should never forget why Mahatma was not awarded the Prize to begin with.
Gandhi drove British out of India, and stopped the Europeans from enslaving people all over the world, and confiscating funds illegally and immorally, by cruel means, and by killing people in every corner of the planet. Mahatma’s example of freeing India from British rule, echoed all over the world and countless countries in Asia, Africa, south America and other places threw the yoke of slavery away, and became free.
How could Europe tolerate it, and endorse someone who exposed their guilt, meanness and hypocrisy. No wonder, Gandhi used to say, ‘ I love Jesus, but not Christians, for what the latter have been doing’.
The West freed Pakistan on August 14th first, before it did India on August 15th, and vivisected India in numerous segments to punish Gandhi. They freed South Africa last, where Gandhi started his work first. Isn’t it an irony of fate, for both Mahatma Gandhi and Alfred Nobel, that Nobel’s blood drenched, dishonest money ( from inventing, selling and amassing wealth out of gunpowder and dynamite, which has been the source of all conflicts and killings in the world for a long, long time), could not touch Gandhi’s honesty and integrity, even after repeated attempts.
During the time of the year when Nobel Prizes are announced, the UNO, celebrates a day of Peace on the birthday of Mahatma, October the 2nd, but proclaimed by a European, an Italian Sonia Gandhi, from India, far removed from Mahatma Gandhi’s ideals and heritage. It reminds of the Peace Prize awarded by Nobel Committee, many years ago, to the brilliant war mercenary, who started and managed at least five wars in Indo-china, Asia, India-Pakistan, Europe and South America, and still consults for the war in Iraq. The other recipient for this prize was nice, timid and honest enough, not to show up at the award ceremony.
Nobel season, will be followed by Thanksgiving, which we celebrate to tell our Indian folks, that after confiscating their land and property, over 500 years ago, and providing them with smallpox-laden blankets, we still wish to thank them for teaching us how to survive the cold weather, when we first arrived here. I wish we receive a Nobel Prize
for this magnanimity.