Indian Nobel campaign

       Oh, this is so sad: The Indian Express reports that Man starts Nobel prize campaign for Indian writers, as:

A national fellow at the Indian Institute of Advances Studies in Shimla, Rajvinder Singh has initiated a campaign 'From patience to perseverance: Nobel for India, 2013' as he feels that Indian writers are not given the recognition they deserve.

       Nationalism is noxious under the best of circumstances, but when it comes to this sort of thing .....
       Most pathetically, this guy argues:

Through the yearly Nobel Prize for Literature, best writers from all languages of the world are being felicitated for their outstanding works. But for almost a century competent Indian writers have been left out.

       Can you believe it ?!?? Competent writers have been 'left out'. Because apparently it shouldn't be about excellence, but rather simply about ... competence, and about every nation having a turn ..... (And, yes, I realize you can argue that it doesn't look like it's always been about excellence at the Swedish Academy, but still .....)