Is Donald Trump Fit for the Nobel Peace Prize?
The hunger for power seems to have made them less compassionate, more arrogant and domineering. Just imagine the plight of surviving bereaved civilians in Ukraine and Gaza who are not just without proper food but struggling for a drop of clean water – a reality that never once stirred the conscience of global superpowers.
Take Donald Trump. His loud call to “make America great again” has only added more confusion to an already unstable global scene. Obsessed with his country's gains, he rarely looked beyond the arithmetic of profit. As long as nations were buying arms from him, he didn't mind them tearing each other apart. He was almost poised to break the sovereignty of Canada. Anyone who threatened America's economy became his public enemy number one. Trump was visibly incensed when he heard of Apple's Tim Cook's decision to expand his investment in India. The president retorted – “Tim, you're my friend. I treated you very good. You're coming in with $500 billion, but now I hear you're building all over India. I don't want you building in India.” And yet, despite being knee-deep in chaos and controversy, Trump still nurtures the ambition of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. The irony couldn't be starker.
It's no secret that Pakistan has long been involved in nurturing terrorism against India. But General Asim Munir, who himself was accused of mindlessly inciting extremist, was warmly embraced by Trump. Donald Trump was overjoyed when Munir endorsed him for the Peace Prize. It's baffling. Honestly, I don't think Barack Obama deserved it either. And, if Trump ever manages to bag the Nobel Peace Prize, it would reek of a backroom deal rather than a genuine honour.
Yes, unlike fifty years ago, the dignity and sanctity of the Nobel Peace Prize in certain categories have greatly declined.
Salil Gewali
A Shillong-based writer and
researcher Salil Gewali is a member of the International Organization of
Journalists (IOJ), and has written 17 books including school textbooks. His
books have also been recommended as textbooks by the Meghalaya Board of School Education
(MBOSE) besides the front-ranking private schools in the Northeast. Gewali is
best known for his excellent publication of his research-based work of over
twenty-four years entitled ‘Great Minds on India’. This book on Indian wisdom has
been edited by a former NASA scientist Dr. A V Murali, Houston, USA, and
translated into twelve languages including German.
Apart from being appreciated worldwide, ‘Great Minds on India’ was formally launched by the Governors and the Education Ministers of Maharashtra, Gujarat; Governors of Meghalaya and West Bengal and the Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh.
Gewali’s ‘GREAT MINDS ON INDIA’ will be instrumental in raising the PRIDE and DIGNITY of the nation from a global perspective. It immensely contributes to create the right awareness about the “higher truths” about the literary wisdom and scientific knowledge of ancient India which never failed to mesmerize the top intellectuals of the WEST such as -- Voltaire, Fredrich Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ralph Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Albert Einstein, Julius Robert Oppenheimer (father of atomic bomb), Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr, Erwin Schrodinger, TS Eliot, Mark Twain, to name a few.