<p>Kailash Satyarthi, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, lost a page of his speech today and wondered whether this had happened before to any other Nobel laureate.<br /><br />"Solutions are not found only in the deliberations in conferences and prescriptions from a distance...Friends what is missing now of course is my (speech) paper," he said to peels of laughter in the Oslo City Hall where he received the the coveted prize.<br /><br />"But, no problem, I will continue without that," the 60-year-old said, quickly regaining composure.</p>.<p><br />Minutes later a Norwegian official came on stage with the missing page of his lecture and Satyarthi once again had the audience in splits saying, "Thank You so much! I don't know whether it has happened to some Nobel Laureate before or not."<br /><br />"But many things are happening today and the best thing that happened is that a young and courageous Pakistani girl has met an Indian father and the Indian father met the Pakistani daughter," he said.<br /><br />Delivering the speech, Satyarthi said, "Friends, the Nobel Committee generously invited me to deliver a 'lecture'. Respectfully, I am unable to do that. 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."<br />He started off his speech by reciting a mantra from the Vedas.<br /><br />Satyarthi also invoked other religions to impress upon the importance of child rights, saying "all the great religions tell us to care for children."<br /><br />"Jesus said 'Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to them.' The Holy Quran says: "Kill not your children because of poverty," he said.<br /><br />In his concluding remarks, Satyarthi said "I call upon you in this room, and all across the world. I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace. Let us march from darkness to light. Let us march from mortality to divinity."<br /><br />"Let us march!" he signed off.<br /><br />Satyarthi's NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) prides itself on liberating over 80,000 children from bonded labour in factories and workshops across India.<br /><br />Malala, who was nominated in the peace prize category last year also, became the youngest ever Nobel laureate.</p>
<p>Kailash Satyarthi, winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize along with Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, lost a page of his speech today and wondered whether this had happened before to any other Nobel laureate.<br /><br />"Solutions are not found only in the deliberations in conferences and prescriptions from a distance...Friends what is missing now of course is my (speech) paper," he said to peels of laughter in the Oslo City Hall where he received the the coveted prize.<br /><br />"But, no problem, I will continue without that," the 60-year-old said, quickly regaining composure.</p>.<p><br />Minutes later a Norwegian official came on stage with the missing page of his lecture and Satyarthi once again had the audience in splits saying, "Thank You so much! I don't know whether it has happened to some Nobel Laureate before or not."<br /><br />"But many things are happening today and the best thing that happened is that a young and courageous Pakistani girl has met an Indian father and the Indian father met the Pakistani daughter," he said.<br /><br />Delivering the speech, Satyarthi said, "Friends, the Nobel Committee generously invited me to deliver a 'lecture'. Respectfully, I am unable to do that. 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."<br />He started off his speech by reciting a mantra from the Vedas.<br /><br />Satyarthi also invoked other religions to impress upon the importance of child rights, saying "all the great religions tell us to care for children."<br /><br />"Jesus said 'Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to them.' The Holy Quran says: "Kill not your children because of poverty," he said.<br /><br />In his concluding remarks, Satyarthi said "I call upon you in this room, and all across the world. I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace. Let us march from darkness to light. Let us march from mortality to divinity."<br /><br />"Let us march!" he signed off.<br /><br />Satyarthi's NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement) prides itself on liberating over 80,000 children from bonded labour in factories and workshops across India.<br /><br />Malala, who was nominated in the peace prize category last year also, became the youngest ever Nobel laureate.</p>