Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel - A slap on the face of mainstream Indian Media & System ?
Like most of the fellow Indians, till 10-Oct-2014, I've never heard of his name. Nobel prizes are not announced out of thin air. Extensive evaluations are done on the nominations. Even the fact that an Indian was on the shortlist should have made the news, but our media was so bankrupt on information about this personality so that some of them even quoted the wikipedia articles blindly. This day kind of made me aware how hollow the Indian media system is. The so called grass-root journalism - even if it is done - rarely gets the deserved attention. To a public which enjoys gossips & cleavage talk much more than anything like this, Indian news channels spit out a continuous stream of that. All that even the well networked channels like NDTV could do is to trace couple of children saved by him - tell them to narrate their stories. I took a look at Satyarthi's Wikipedia page as well. There are 13 'awards & honours' including the Nobel 2014 listed there. Bu...