Dinesh jain
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Quite symbolic, isn't it? Amid massive shelling
from the Pakistani and the Indian sides across
the International Border, the Nobel Peace Prize
to Kailash Satyarthi (60) and Malala Yousafzai
(17), one Indian and other a Pakistani, has
come as a big message from the Nobel
Committee.
With both taking up the cudgels on behalf of
the marginalised and the oppressed, one can
only hope that prize dilutes the geographical
and cultural boundaries between the two
countries that never seem to be at peace with
one another.
While Satyarthi, founder of Bachpan Bachao
Andolan, gave up his career as an engineer to
check child trafficking and child labour in India,
the steely Malala won over adversities to take
up the issue of girls' education in Pakistan and
the world-over.
With these harbingers of peace from the two
neighbouring countries excelling in their
causes, the border between the two nations
too needs peacemakers, not war hawks.
If only the two nations could share the peace
and not just the prize.
Malala: From Swat to Sweden
Anyone who has read Malala's autobiography, 'I
Am Malala', can say that she is not just a child
of destiny. Yes, destiny forced her to stay back
in the UK and become a crusader of girl's
education. But it was Taliban's invasion of the
Swat Valley that made Malala.
It were the scenes of violence, the suppression
of women, the banishing and deterioration of
the education system in Swat that turned the
girl into an activist.
India, Pakistan now share a Nobel. Can we share some peace too?
from the Pakistani and the Indian sides across
the International Border, the Nobel Peace Prize
to Kailash Satyarthi (60) and Malala Yousafzai
(17), one Indian and other a Pakistani, has
come as a big message from the Nobel
Committee.
With both taking up the cudgels on behalf of
the marginalised and the oppressed, one can
only hope that prize dilutes the geographical
and cultural boundaries between the two
countries that never seem to be at peace with
one another.
While Satyarthi, founder of Bachpan Bachao
Andolan, gave up his career as an engineer to
check child trafficking and child labour in India,
the steely Malala won over adversities to take
up the issue of girls' education in Pakistan and
the world-over.
With these harbingers of peace from the two
neighbouring countries excelling in their
causes, the border between the two nations
too needs peacemakers, not war hawks.
If only the two nations could share the peace
and not just the prize.
Malala: From Swat to Sweden
Anyone who has read Malala's autobiography, 'I
Am Malala', can say that she is not just a child
of destiny. Yes, destiny forced her to stay back
in the UK and become a crusader of girl's
education. But it was Taliban's invasion of the
Swat Valley that made Malala.
It were the scenes of violence, the suppression
of women, the banishing and deterioration of
the education system in Swat that turned the
girl into an activist.
India, Pakistan now share a Nobel. Can we share some peace too?
