Malala, Satyarthi & 99.8%ile in CAT

Yeah, today is one of those days. The day when you get to hear a self-absorbed, ignorant and opinionated rant.

But on second thoughts; with the advent of facebook and twitter, every Tom, Dick & Harry gets to spit out his "OUTRAGE" on every damn thing under the sun. So this day might not be different after all.. The only difference being that you get to hear some pears of wisdom from this blog. 

I normally take a back seat on passing my judgement on any major news. You can call it the signs of a lazy citizen or the scruples of a person who doesn't want to comment on anything without knowing the whole truth. In such matters, i take the road dictated by my spiritual guru "The Dude" from the Big Lebowski - I "abide" and mind my own business...

The Nobel peace prize was announced today. As expected Malala got it along with a guy from India called "Kailash Satyarthi". Though I am ashamed to say i had never heard about the guy earlier, I felt immensely proud, even more so when I googled him and found out the kind of work he has been doing. 

So what would tick of this all abiding guy from Dudeland you ask and force him to write a blog. When some opinionated pricks start pointing fingers at the honor and say things like

• You just have to toe the lines of a western NGO to get this award nowadays
• If the NGO is run by a certain section of the society, it is never recognized, because the west hates these guys
• it is just a token award during times of war between India & Pakistan

To all these people, I write an open letter, or an open blog:\

1. Just recount what you were doing at the following ages
• 11 - fighting with your younger brother over who gets the remote 
• 13 -  fighting with the neighbouring society kids over who had won the toss before the inter  cricket match
• 15 - fighting with your parents who are forcing you to study for your 10^th board exams
• 17 - fighting again with your parents over not being allowed to go to Goa with your friends after the 12^th board exams
2. Now, just replace it with the following life events
• 11-13 - writing a personal blog against the Taliban about your opinion on promoting girls' education in the Swat Valley which makes you world famous
• 15 - being shot in the head by terrorists while you were travelling in your school bus and being unconscious and critical for so long after that
• 16 - speaking on education for the girl child at the U.N headquarters
• 17 - getting the Nobel prize

Now, I know I may be a little well off in Logical reasoning (scored 99,8% in CAT), but even my friend's 3 year old daughter can figure out from this, as to who from the following 2 cases deserves recognition. 

I normally follow a simple philosophy on such cases - "If you have not experienced it, you don't have to right to comment on it."

Continuing the scenarios, just imagine you are able to live up to the ripe young age of 60 (fairly easy for our politicians). Can you do the following by the respective age?

• 26 - Give up your career and dedicate yourself to the cause against child labour
• 50 - Be on all the major panels working towards child development 
• 55 - Be awarded all the major nations in the world for your work except your home country
• 60 - get the Nobel prize

• Yup, it's a west funded award and they will have their own criteria. If you are handing out some recognition or award, wouldn't you want the winners to have followed some of your own criteria rather than wait for the respective governments to nominate someone from the yearly quota. 
• Yup, there would have been more deserving winners, but I am pretty sure that those guys would be the last guys to be worried about it. They would keep on doing their work
• Even if the award is just a token, it is a token which is recognized globally and will surely bring more attention to the causes and force the respective governments to take some hard steps against it.
• about allegations of financial irregularity against Satyarthi - prove it and you can have a Well done award from us. Till then keep your trap shut. 

Well, I think I have outraged enough.

My bai seems to think, I am fasting for Karva Chauth. No breakfast for me till now.