Unlike the melodrama that goes on in Indian Reality shows where you can actually win public opinion by sobbing profuse and the TV channel surges its TRPs by needless documentation of the struggles of contestants, the Nobel Prize committee is fairly detached and save one off blunders (read, Obama) it is majorly unbiased in its opinion.
Malala did miss the prize once. People have often misread her progression chronology. She began attacking the Taliban with nothing more than words sitting right there in Pakistan, way before she was shot. In fact, the decision to take her down itself was an acknowledgement of the impact her fiery speeches had been having on the local populace. People, and not children, saw in her a hope that they had been longing to see from the concerned elected representatives.
She, as a child, addresses other children only now. When her rebellion against fear started, it was nothing short of those by MLK, Madiba and Gandhi, only less in terms of the outreach which was skewed against her because of the extremely tight controls of Taliban on communication systems. When she did get shot, she already had had a movement running in the North West Frontier. Schools did reopen, girls did buy books and the floor under the mountain rats' bunkers did rock.
When she recovered after a very long and strenuous treatment in Dubai, she decided to speak again, and louder. This time, the West noticed. In terms of risk, price she had to pay, impact (both endemic and global) and above all, the sheer balls it takes, her act is unmatched in recent recorded history.
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Malala did miss the prize once. People have often misread her progression chronology. She began attacking the Taliban with nothing more than words sitting right there in Pakistan, way before she was shot. In fact, the decision to take her down itself was an acknowledgement of the impact her fiery speeches had been having on the local populace. People, and not children, saw in her a hope that they had been longing to see from the concerned elected representatives.
She, as a child, addresses other children only now. When her rebellion against fear started, it was nothing short of those by MLK, Madiba and Gandhi, only less in terms of the outreach which was skewed against her because of the extremely tight controls of Taliban on communication systems. When she did get shot, she already had had a movement running in the North West Frontier. Schools did reopen, girls did buy books and the floor under the mountain rats' bunkers did rock.
When she recovered after a very long and strenuous treatment in Dubai, she decided to speak again, and louder. This time, the West noticed. In terms of risk, price she had to pay, impact (both endemic and global) and above all, the sheer balls it takes, her act is unmatched in recent recorded history.
http://topyaps.com/sri-sri-ravi-shankar-versus-malala-yousafzai?fb_action_ids=10154265781079015&fb_action_types=og.comments
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