Girls are like God signature, Malala is like my daughter, says Nobel winner Kailash Satyarthi

Mangalore Today News Network

Stockholm, Dec 10, 2014: In a beautiful remark celebrating the elegance and significance of a girl child, Kailash said, "Whenever a child takes birth, the Almighty smiles. And whenever a girl child is born, the Almighty doesn’t just smile but puts a signature on it heralding that he wants to continue this universe. So whenever a daughter is born, Almighty’s signatures are born..Malala is my daughter".

Speaking on sharing the award with Malala Yousfzai of Pakistan, Satyarthi reiterated that she was like his daughter and that thousands of such daughters be born.

Hailing India’s culture and tradition, Satyarthi added that peace prevails in every grain  of India and that we have been conveying the message of peace for thousands of years.

In an exclusive interview to Zee News, Satyarthi said that he would like to dedicate the Nobel Peace Prize to all the underprivileged children and also to all the Indians.
The Nobel laureate added that the award was the most special of all - 11 awards - he has received so far as it honours all those children who are suffering and mired in child labour or trafficking.

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 will be awarded to child rights activists India’s Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan’s Malala Yousufzai today in Oslo City Hall at 1:00 pm Central Europe Time (CET).

Satyarthi, 60, and Malala, 17, will share USD 1.1 million Nobel Peace Prize and also receive Nobel medals and documents.

After the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, it will be followed by the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hotel at 7:00 pm CET.

Yesterday, both Malala and Satyarthi shared the stage to address a joint press conference at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, where both of them called themselves lucky and honoured to have received the award with each other.

"Malala’s like my daughter. She is the bravest child one can think of. I am lucky to be sharing the award with her," said Kailash Satyarthi. Whereas Malala reciprocated his gesture by saying, "I am honoured to sit with my father" pointing towards Kailash Satyarthi.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee chose to honour Satyarthi and Malala with the Nobel Peace Prize 2014 “for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education”.

The committee noted that the Nobel Peace Prize for this year honoured the fact that a Muslim (Malala Yousafzai) and a Hindu (Kailash Satyarthi) a Pakistani and an Indian, had joined in what it called a common struggle for education and extremism.

Satyarthi is the eight Indian to receive the prestigious Nobel Prize. Here are others who achieved the same feat.

Satyarthi’s "Bachpan Bachao Aandolan" has saved almost 80,000 children from child labour, slavery and trafficking while Malala shot to fame after she was shot by Taliban for writing against them and promoting girl children’s education in Pakistan.

Courtesy: Zeenews