Awards across the globe are
always controversial starting from Nobel Prize (well documented several decades
ago by Irving Wallace in his book The Prize)
We must
never spoil the day for recipients or givers, instead, just congratulate them.
Awards
generate a very important unintended consequence, that is, the visibility of
the recipient to the publicity hungry world.
Certain
exceptions are some realms of science (even here there are too many people in
the link from the first person who observed a phenomenon or possibility, the person
who conceptualized a hypothesis, a pioneer who discovered/ invented the
fundamental aspect, the person who experimented, updated, documented, explained
and enabled application, then the technological utilisation of it - case in
point which has not got a Nobel Prize and which is the most important thing
next only to breath! INTERNET).
Justin
Pollard’s book titled BOFINOLOGY reveals the ugly but real stories behind our
greatest scientific discoveries’.
In sports (
even here on the way before final outcome many omissions and commissions can
happen- a single wrong line call in Tennis, a penalty kick in football, LBW
decision in cricket).
Unsung,
unrecognised and unrewarded heroes are too many who keep the ocean alive while
lashing waves ( the publicity department of the ocean) are admired by all as
that frothy, sandy mix of water is what is visible to those on shores.
We get
reminded of John Keats' famous lines in ' Ode on a Grecian Urn’, which says it
all, “Heard melodies are sweet, but those UNHEARD ARE SWEETER".
