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‘Martti Ahtisaari’, ‘Wangari Maathai’ !!! Wondering who these people are, I would have recognized these as names of cocktails or Japanese food, before looking for them on the internet. Now! ‘Barack Obama’ what about this name!!! I knew, it’s really an outdated topic, but the topic came up a few days earlier during a conversation and I thought of writing this. There was a huge hue and cry when the American president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize few months back. On the onset of this write-up I would like to make a point that I am not judgemental on if the prize is right or wrong.

People all over the world debated and rationalised the decision of the Nobel Committee. Good for people like me, who understood what the prize is for. But unfortunately it didn’t happen when Mr. Ahtisaari or Ms. Maathai did win the prize. May be President Obama fell prey to his own popularity due his Presidency of a super power. A commoner like me and my friends, we knew who is man Obama is and to some extent what he did, so we are in a position to debate on it. Apparently he is the most powerful man on this planet who could be a saviour of many human lives or could be one who could cause damage to human lives. He showed substantial intent towards saving lives and the 5 wise men/women found he had done a good job so far.

Some call the prize is premature and I would call it pre-emptive. There is no harm is awarding a prize prematurely to someone if it’s going to produce good results in the future. Internet says in 1939 Adolf Hitler was nominated for the peace prize by a Swedish Parliamentarian, who knows had he been awarded the prize that year, he might not have gone to invade Poland, which triggered WW II. It would be unfair on Usain Bolt to expect him to run 100M races in 9.58 seconds through out his life and call him world champion at an age of 60. Probably 10 months in presidency was convincing enough for the committee to arrive at a decision. Even if they are to be proved wrong in the years to come, we can say Nobel Prize is after all a worthless prize and it could be awarded to someone worthless by a worthless people who had a 10 million Swedish Kroners to give away to someone and lots of people like me wasted time writing on it.

Off late, I am working for filthy rich Norway, which brings money to a company in rich Sweden, which pay me where the money goes to not so rich India. I am working for bringing in equality in the planet, eventually World Peace. Is this called Welfare-Economics by any chance! If yes! I am already a candidate for Nobel Prize for Economics!!! Who is going to nominate me? :)

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