The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was at the center of an opinion maelstorm much worse than the dreaded Cyclone Melissa that almost drowned poor little Jamaica before subduing and hitting Cuba with the power n force of a Number Three cyclone.
Luckily, for everyone, Mr. Potus included, too, the Nobel Peace Prize debate turned out to be a storm in a tea cup. The after shocks cum echoes of all that sound and fury signifying most interesting issues refuse to die down though.
The recent most tremor comes from Nigeria. The nonagenarian Nobel Prize winner from Nigeria, Wole Soyinka, is apparently being denied easy access to the U.S. soil unless he chooses to re-apply for the visa. Soyinia had torn his green card in a fit of disgust and anger when the Nobel Peace Prize aspirant this year became the president for the first time. Such open and obvious critique has fetched him a "love letter" which revoked his visa.
Soyinka, being the first African Nobel winner and a litterateur whose work opened up racist injustice injected in to consciousness by colonialism, is often invited by American universities on lecture tours. Now, given the Consulate stand, at stake is 'human dignity' according to Soyinka.
Most all students, even Science and Commerce scholars, would have read in their First Year Soyinka's silently ferocious poem entitled "Telephone Conversation" as it is a much anthologised poem, a favourite of textbook editors who want to genuflect in the direction of the political correctness.
In other words, in the Indian academic scenario, this news would be like salt rubbed in to the wound caused by H1B visa denial or the recent most reversal of the automatic renewal of work permits.
If such is the seething anger amongst the hopefuls in India, is it any wonder that Mr. Trump admits that his Third Term would be a constitutional impossibility. Well, this has always been my standpoint. Every democratic country has healthy institutions that create a proper balance sheet of checks and cross considerations that prohibit any unethical illegality.
Sure, right now, in the U.S., both the Congress and the judiciary (as appointed by the President) ARE Republican. Yet be it Tulsi Gabbard on Obama or any other such sensitive issue, at work are principles that in the final analysis justify the social contract!
Pratima@ "A government of laws, and not of men," asserted John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of America.
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