India’s Kailash Satyarthi, along with Pakistan’s Malala Yousafzai, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in fighting child labour and terrorism respectively. [caption id=“attachment_1751065” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Indian Nobel Laureate Kailash Satarthi. Reuters[/caption] Kailash Satyarthi is a renowned activist working in the area of child labour. Satyarthi heads the Global March Against Child Labour, and through his movements have rescued over 80,000 children. Satyarthi winning the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yousafzai comes at a time when India and Pakistan are clashing at the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir. As the news was announced on Friday, Twitter soon erupted with congratulatory posts for Satyarthi and the hashtag #KailashSatyarthi quickly started trending. Here are some of the tweets:
Had heard of Bachpan Bachao Andolan, but never heard of #KailashSatyarthi. Salute to such silent crusaders. India brings home another #Nobel
— Dr. Sanjukta Basu, M.A., LLB., PhD (@sanjukta) October 10, 2014
Let's #ComeTogetherIndia and celebrate #NobelPeacePrize with Pakistan for the day. Congratulations to #Malala,17 and #KailashSatyarthi
— PalashDas (@palashind) October 10, 2014
#NobelPeacePrize 2014 goes to #KailashSatyarthi of #India and #MalalaYousafzai, will bring peace to #India #Pakistan Congratulations!
— Joy (@Jayshahca) October 10, 2014
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More Shorts#KailashSatyarthi has won many international awards in the past 30 yrs for his hardwork & for freeing 80,000 children. #FeatherInTheCap
— #119 Element (@AmitAsamwar) October 10, 2014
Hi #India #Pakistan celebrate peace bury political hatred, it's great opportunity to restore peace #NoblePrize #KailashSatyarthi #Malala
— Tharoor Soul of India 🇮🇳 (@jameelsjam) October 10, 2014
On one side India and Pakistan fight each other at the border and on the other #MalalaYousafzai and #KailashSatyarthi win Nobel peace award
— samar khan (@samarmumbaikhan) October 10, 2014
My heartiest Congratulations to Child rights activist Shri. #KailashSatyarthi @k_satyarthi for winning #NobelPeacePrize .
— Ranendra Pratap Swain (@rajaaswain) October 10, 2014


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