19:04 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Malala now recalls about her childhood, her days in Swat. She says that when other girls painted their hands in henna, she was busy drawing maths equation. She recalls about how Swat turned into a nightmare and 400 schools were destroyed. She says that she had two option, to remain silent and get killed or to stand up and met the same fate. She chose the latter.
18:51 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Now Malala Yousafzai is speaking. She thanks one and all. She thanks her father for not clipping her wings. She thanks her mother for inculcating the true spirit of Islam.
18:42 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
I challenge the cultural of silence says Kailash Satyarthi.
18:25 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
18:15 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Kailash Satyarthi is now speaking. He fondly recalls his parents. He also remembers all his co-workers who lost their live in the movement to save childrens. He dedicates the award to Bachpan Bachao Abhiyaan co-workers.
18:05 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
After a soulful performance by Rahat Fateh Ali khan, the award ceremony commences. Malala Yousufzai and Kailash Satyarthi are formally awarded the Nobel prize.
17:45 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
Currently Thorbjorn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Commitee is speaking. He emphaises on the achievement of both Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yosuafzai. According to him,
"Satyarthi and Yousafzai are precisely the people whom Alfred Nobel in his will calls "champions of peace".This they are not only behind a desk, but in practice.....Speaking about Satyarthi, Chairman of the Nobel Committee says that he (Satyarthi) has achieved the release of some 80,000 children, sometimes in very dramatic circumstances. He recalls about Bachpan Bachao movement and Satyarthi's global march against child labour way back in 1988 where nearly 7 million people took part and it became a global movement adopted by UN.
17:33 IST Wednesday, 10 December 2014
The award ceremony has started.
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Eminent Child rights activists India's Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's education activist Malala Yousafzai, along with 11 others, are set to recieve prestigious Nobel Prize Award shortly.
In Oslo, they will receive the Nobel medals, Nobel diplomas and documents confirming the Nobel Prize amount.
Satyarthi, along with his family reached Oslo on Monday. Malala also reached Oslo Nobel laureates on Monday. Both spoke in glowing terms of the warm welcome they received in Norway. When asked about the freezing temperature of the deep winter, the two Nobel Peace Prize winnetrs laughed it away on the eve of the prize-giving ceremony.
"I have never seen so much warmth as I have seen in this country since I arrived", Satyarthi said at the Nobel Institute.
"The warmth comes from ordinary people, especially from children. When I looked out of my hotel window hotel this morning, several children and teachers were waiting outside for us", said Satyarthi.
At the afternoon press conference, where the two Nobel laureates came together in public for the first time since being named for the Nobel Peace Prize, Satyarthi was all praise for the 17-year-old Malala, whose name has become eponymous with a generation of young activists. "Malala is the bravest child one can imagine. I am proud of her and lucky to receive this Peace Prize together with her", he said.
Satyarthi, who has worked for children's rights and against child labour, publicly 'adopted' the world's youngest ever Nobel laureate, who hails from Pakistan, as his "daughter". Saying that she is like his daughter—to stress what the two had in common—he asked her in a bantering tone if that was alright with her. When Malala laughingly nodded yes, Satyarthi joined the general laughter to add, "So now we will bring her home".
Frenchman Patrick Modiano will be presented the Literature Nobel, US-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband-and-wife duo Edvard and May-Britt Moser Nobel in medicine and Japanese scientists Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura the Nobel in Physics.
Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell will share the Nobel in Chemistry while Frenchman Jean Tirole will be presented Nobel for Economics.
(With Agency inputs)
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