Nobel Peace Prize for Yogurt vending?

by Midnight Musing
March 6, 2009

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There is a popular saying, man proposes, God disposes! Today, we will tell our readers the secret story of a man, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for selling yogurt and selling at an exorbitant price to the vast poor population in Bangladesh.

Yes, Professor [it was never said in which college did he teach] Mohammed Yunus, who obtained Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his Grameen Bank project, a bank well known in Bangladesh for extracting tremendous percentage of interest from the under-privileged down trodden people in one of the poorest nations in the world. According to reports, Grameen Bank has been a consistent cause of suicide of several poor borrowers, who had to commit suicide in the face of severe humiliation and mental torture by the Grameen Bank officers and agents, while failing to pay interest and the capital amount. People in the world should know Grameen Bank is one of the top ranking banks in the entire universe, as far as interest level is concerned. In most cases, borrowers are forced to pay, up to 25 per cent or even more interest per year on the amount they borrow from this modern-day bank.

Now, let us get back to the man, who leads the multi-billion Taka show under the blanket of 'Micro Credit'.

In 2007, when Muhammed Yunus got the Nobel Peace Prize, he in the state reception at Presidential Palace told the dignitaries that, his entire life would be spent in giving interviews to global media. He was trying to imagine a life long jam-packed media curiosity as it happened as soon as his name was announced by the Nobel Prize Committee. But, the 'banker', who makes precise calculation in extracting interest from the poor people, failed to calculate the fact that, media never runs after any particular Nobel Laureate for life. It is just a short-time craze, which quickly dissolves as the next laureate is announced. Bad luck for Yunus! The next Nobel Peace Prize laureate was none, but former US Vice President Al Gore, whose image and exposure was million miles ahead of Muhammed Yunus.

But, much before Al Gore got the Prize, Muhammed Yunus aspired to ride to the post of Head of State in Bangladesh. With this destined to flop dream, he floated a political party name Nagorik Shakti [NASH]. In English, Nagorik Shakti stands for people's strength, while the short abbreviation NASH stands for devastation. Yunus truly had a great devastation to his political dream. People in Bangladesh, politicians, social elites and media started pointing fingers at him with mystic smile, as if a new mal-nutritious [a man without popular support] mad has entered the political wrestle ground of Bangladesh. Yunus realized his blunder very quick. He wrapped the idea of becoming the 'head of state' of Bangladesh. But it was destiny's decision to land him as a YOGURT VENDOR thus showing his Humpty-Dumpty face to the television viewers, which has by now turned into one of the best caricature of Bangladesh ad industry.

Believe it or not! I was never aware of this modeling wrestle of Muhammed Yunus in selling 'Shakti' [Strength] brand yogurt. But, unfortunately enough, during a mid-break of television program [everyone watches television channel due to recent massacre inside the headquarters of paramilitary forces in Bangladesh], I discovered everyone bursting into laughter on seeing the Nobel Laureate Yogurt Vending ad. Everyone in the room shouted, look, Yunus models in yogurt ad! And, it was incredible! Yes, Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus finally landed in the profession of a yogurt vendor. And this is called destiny, where people ought to land!

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