There were two World Wars, just fyi. World War 1 - which was a stupid war idiotic European diplomats got us into and which bled into the following years and set the stage for the 2nd. South Asian soldiers were some of the largest suppliers of food, funding, labour and soldiers in both the wars. All the while Winston…

He did a lot for the world - like orchestrating a famine in which 4 million people died and disparaging Indians/Pakistanis/Bangladeshis as a race while using exploitative taxation and the bulk of our army and our economy to fund your wars. Fun fun fun for all of us.

Some Indian zillionaire should buy this and move it brick by brick to the grounds of the Indian National Museum. It would be fucking hilarious.

me and my extended family over the diaspora would love to chip in, and we could all take shifts defacing the fuck’s house. (we’re south african indians, so you know it would be such delicious irony)

JOHN PRINE.

If we’re talking about people deserving and not winning how about President Obama winning yet still not living up to the Peace medal’s standards? Just to name 3:

I’m workin’ on it, I’m workin’ on it!

I don’t think the Nobel for Literature has anything to do with the one for peace.

a. the idea that they should give it to a woman “just because” only makes sense if you think that the literary output of women is somehow inferior both on an individual and collective basis.

Yep. I’m a big Dylan fan myself, but still don’t think I’d make him one of my top choices for a Nobel in literature.

I hate Bob Dylan. I can’t stand his voice, I especially can’t stand his lyrics, which always creep me out re: women. I get that his music reached a lot of people but I don’t think it necessarily did so in a wholly constructive way. Not many of his songs are actually about peace.

What’s really insulting is that they stretched the definition of the category in order to give it to a white man.

I like how all the other 13 pictures are solemn and sober, and then Munro looks like she’s at a Blue Jays game.