On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM, divya manian <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I suppose it boils down, ultimately, to whether one *feels* the Nobel is
>> deserved, or not. Very subjective...
> I suspect most people think you need to "suffer" a lot to win a Nobel
> Peace Prize, like Mandela, Mother Teresa, etc, which is probably why
> many are peeved that Gandhi didn't win it.
Kissinger did not suffer much. Did he deserve the peace prize?
Gandhi, unfortunately, did not live long enough post-independance. If
he had just stayed alive for a couple of years he would have
definitely won it. Maybe we should lobby for posthumous nobel prizes.
Thaths
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