Congratulate Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi

It was a proud moment for India as eminent child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi received the Nobel Peace Prize at grand ceremony in Norway's capital Oslo on Wednesday. Along with Satyarthi, Pakistan's Malala Yousufzai also became the youngest ever Nobel laureate and received the award for her work on promoting child rights.

Both the activists were given the award for their contribution in the troubled sub-continent, where millions are deprived of their childhood and education.

In a modest message while accepting the honour, Satyarthi said, "I represent here the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I have come here to share the voices and dreams of our children, our children, because they are all our children."

Satyarthi is the eighth Indian to win a Nobel prize. He has been advocating against child labour since the 1990s. His organisation - Bachpan Bachao Andolan symbolises the fight against child servitude. Bachpan Bachao Andolan has helped free over 80,000 children from various form of servitude.

Rabindranath Tagore - Nobel literature laureate, 1913

Sir CV Raman - Nobel Prize for Physics, 1930

Hargobind Khorana - Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1968

Mother Teresa - Nobel Peace prize,1979

S Chandrasekhar- Nobel Prize in Physics, 1983

Amartya Sen - Prize in Economics, 1998

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009

Kailash Satyarthi - Nobel Peace Prize, 2014

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