The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was announced on Friday (October 10). Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado received it “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”, the Nobel committee announced.

Each year, as the world tunes in to see who takes home the Nobel Peace Prize . And almost every year, one question inevitably resurfaces – Why didn’t Mahatma Gandhi ever get the Peace Prize?

Few figures of the 20th century embodied peace and non-violence quite like Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. And yet, despite being nominated five times — in 1937, 1938, 1939, 1947 and 1948 — Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize.

So, what really happened?

To be fair, even members of

See Full Page