the following is from ramachandra guha's "oslo diary" in OUTLOOK,Oct 27,2008;
amazing and alarming stuff.
In my first week, I am down to speak at the Nobel Peace Institute, which lies
at the edge of a park housing the rather modest palace of the King of
Norway[..]After my talk, a lady comes up and introduces herself as a doctor,
and an advisor to the Peace Institute. The names I had mentioned were all very
good, she said, but surely it was time that the peace prize went to an Indian?
She mentions the name of a fellow townsman of mine, a man who has grown long
hair, given himself four fancy initials (HH/SS), and whose name is also that of
a very great exponent of the sitar.
The Norwegian doctor had heard that this man had brought peace to Kashmir, and
had promoted organic agriculture in thousands of Indian villages. She had been
asked to promote his candidacy for the prize, and indeed the man himself had
been to Oslo several times recently. She asked me if I would give my opinion on
the matter.
I answered that so far as I knew, there was no peace in Kashmir. I observed
that what the West refers to as ‘organic farming’ we knew as rain-fed
agriculture—and that it is nothing new. Where there was no canal water and
where they had little capital, millions of Indian farmers had, for the past
thousands of years, grown crops without the use of any chemicals (and without
any spiritual counselling) whatsoever.
Finally, I suggested to the doctor that if not giving Gandhi the prize was a
scandal, awarding it to my fellow townsman would be an even bigger scandal.
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