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Monday, August 21, 2006

Where is Gandhi's Peace Prize?


Have you ever wondered why Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma, was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize? Here is a little of the backstory, from the Nobel site itself. In it they lament his never receiving a prize. They hint at subtle, or not so subtle racism that might have kept him from winning. He was nominated five times in his life.

It is absolutely a tarnishing of the image of the prize itself to believe that this amazing man never won this prize. The cheapening of the prize continued with the awarding of it to Jimmy Carter, but that is another article.

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/articles/gandhi/index.html

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