Article on Mahatma Gandhi never winning a nobel peace prize.
May I just say that this is like a Hall Of Fame without Michael Jordan.
I didn’t know this till today, you just tend to assume these things, and I always assumed he had one, this is saddening, but Gandhi was bigger than the Nobel.
Mahatma Gandhi, the Missing Laureate
by Øyvind Tønnesson
Nobelprize.org Peace Editor, 1998-2000
1 December 1999
introduction
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) has become the strongest symbol of non-violence in the 20th century. It is widely held – in retrospect – that the Indian national leader should have been the very man to be selected for the Nobel Peace Prize. He was nominated several times, but was never awarded the prize. Why?
These questions have been asked frequently: Was the horizon of the Norwegian Nobel Committee too narrow? Were the committee members unable to appreciate the struggle for freedom among non-European peoples?” Or were the Norwegian committee members perhaps afraid to make a prize award which might be detrimental to the relationship between their own country and Great Britain?
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