Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, centre right, speaks with school girls in Maiduguri Nigeria. Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai was greeted with cheers by dozens of young w...
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, poses for selfies with children at the school "Casa Esperanza," or Hope Home, in Boquete, Panama.
Children dressed as clowns wait to dance for Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, from India, as he visits the school "Casa Esperanza," or Hope Home, in Boquete, Panama. S...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hand with Noble prize winner Scientists at Noble prize series function at Science City, in Ahmedabad.
Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, right, arrives with his wife Maria Clemencia Rodirguez for a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogota, Colombia. Colombian Pre...
The Royal Academy of Sciences members, from left to right, Professor Sara Snogerup Linse, Professor Goran K Hansson and Professor Olof Ramstrom present the 2016 Nobel Chemistry Pri...
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi addresses the opening session of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen releases 'Living Reality of Muslims in West Bengal:A Report',as noted poet Shankha Ghosh(L) looks on.
Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi gestures as he speaks during the launch of his book "Azad Bachpan ki Aor".
Angus Deaton gestures at a gathering at Princeton University after it was announced that he won the Nobel prize in economics for improving understanding of poverty and how people i...
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Houcine Abassi, secretary general of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), right, is congratulated by unidentified union members in his office at the headquarters in Tunis, Tun...
This April 24, 2007 file picture shows Wided Bouchamaoui, president of the Tunisian employers union, during a meeting in Tunis, Tunisia. Bouchamaoui is one of the four members of t...
Kaci Kullmann Five, the new head of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, announces the winner of 2015 Nobel peace prize during a press conference in Oslo, Norway. The Norwegi...
Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich the 2015 Nobel literature winner, is surrounded as she leaves a news conference in Minsk, Belarus.
Paul Modrich takes a phone call as he sits on the couch with his dog Dover at his vacation home in Rumney, New Hampshire. Modrich, an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institut...
Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, left, one of the joint winners of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with the Harpal Kumar, CEO of Cancer Research UK as he celebrates with staff members at...
Scientist William C. Campbell poses for a photo with a collection of microscopes in his home in North Andover, Mass. Campbell is one of three scientists from the U.S., Japan and Ch...
U.S. activist Gloria Steinem (sixth right in front) two Nobel Peace Prize laureates Mairead Maguire, from Northern Ireland (second from right) Leymah Gbowee, from Liberia (third fr...
China faced international calls today to free the widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo after global condemnation over the Co
China's Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo died today while still in custody following a battle with cancer, authorities said, afte
A writer has charged that rock legend Bob Dylan lifted sections of his Nobel Prize lecture from SparkNotes, the f
After months of uncertainty and controversy, Bob Dylan finally accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature at a jovial, c
Music icon Bob Dylan is to receive his Nobel prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it was
Music icon Bob Dylan is to receive his Nobel prize this weekend at a meeting with the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, it was
More than a month after child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel citation was stolen from his house, police recover
Nearly a month after child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel citation was stolen from his home here, the police su
Three persons have been arrested in connection with the theft of Nobel Prize replica, citation and ornaments from Nobel La
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh today attacked Amartya Sen and questioned about his contribution to the nation.
Writing in the Hindustan Times, an alarmed Prem Shankar Jha says that given the Chinese sensitivities vis-a-vis India, "the immediate need is to persuade the Dalai Lama to postpone his visit to Tawang":
The resulting confrontation has now acquired a life of its own and is leading the two countries towards a war that neither wants. The calibrated escalation of China’s demands and actions suggests that the point of no return will be the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tawang in November. Wen Jiabao’s request for a meeting with Manmohan Singh in Bangkok should, therefore, be seen as a last ditch effort to avert war...
Fortunately for India, reversing the escalation does not require making humiliating concessions. All that New Delhi needs to do is clear up the misapprehensions that have taken root in the Chinese leaders’ minds.
Read the full piece at the HT: It's a Dim Sum Game
Such suggestions seem to be of a piece with the recent “strategic reassurance” given by Barack obama to China by his refusal to meet the Dalai Lama during the latter's visit to Washington. While Obama may have been bestowed with a Nobel Peace Prize soon thereafter, Maureen Dowd in a recent column quoted Vaclav Havel to put it in perspective: “It is only a minor compromise. But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems.” Gabbar Singh had put it pithily in Sholay, "jo Dar gayaa samjho mar gayaa".
