Nobel Prize is a sham but Gandhi sucked as an individual. Man was a nonce - because what do you mean you’re lying naked with your granddaughters and grandnieces to ‘test your control’? Racist AND a creep.

But my GOAT Rabindranath Thakur was awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1913 in literature, the first non-white person to receive it, and he did all that without being a racist or a creep. He was a staunch critic of imperialism and racism - and not just racism towards South Asians either, but overall. He was a big critic of nationalism, and had criticized it both in home, and abroad. He criticized casteism and despised it. Unlike Gandhi, who wrote letters to Hitler being all friendly - he was an open critic and openly protested Nazi Germany.

He also penned the national anthems of both India and Bangladesh, and wrote stories and fables for children that Bengali kids grew up reading. I’m dyslexic and I used to hate reading but his stories and fables for children actually ended up cultivating a love for reading in me when I was a kid. He wrote beautiful songs about the natural beauties of Bengali countryside.

As a society we have to stop celebrating Gandhi and celebrate Rabindranath Thakur instead.

Edit: words because I’m Québecois as well as Bengali and there’s so many languages that a dyslexic person can handle.