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Indians Winning International Awards
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INDIAN NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS
Rabindra Nath Tagore (1861-1941): Author and educator, he founded the Shanti Niketan (1901) which later became the Vishwabharati University. Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his work Gitanjali. He was the first Asian recipient of the honour. His important works include Sonar Tari, Chaitali, Kalpana, Chitrangada and Sadhana. He composed the National Anthems of India and Bangladesh.
C. V. Raman (1888-1970): Physicist Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for his study on the scattering of light, popularly known as The Raman Effect, the theory that describes the change in frequency of light while passing through a transparent medium. He founded the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1958 and conferred with the Bharat Ratna in 1954.
Hargobind Khurana (b.1922): Now an American citizen, he was born in Raipur (Punjab), now in Pakistan. He took his Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool and in 1960 joined the University of Wisconsin. Khurana was awarded the Nobel for Medicine in 1968 for the interpretation of genetic code and its function in protein synthesis. The co-winners of award along with Khurana were Robert W.Holley and W.Marshall Nirenberg.
Mother Teresa (1910-1997): The 'Angel of Mercy', Mother Teresa was born to Albanian parents in Skopliji, Yugoslavia and baptized Agnes Gonxa Bojaxhin. She came to India when she was 18 and soon founded the 'Missionaries of Charity' which was approved by the Vatican in 1950. She was given Indian citizenship in 1948. She was awarded Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.
Subramanium Chandrashekhar (b. 1910): Now an American citizen, Chandrashekhar was born in Lahore, Pakistan and educated at the Presidency, Madras. He was the nephew of Sir C.V Raman. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1983 for his theoretical studies of the physical process of importance to the structure and evolution of stars (The 'Chandrashekhar Limit').
Amartya Sen (b.1933): The Lamont Professor of Philosophy and Economics at Harvard University, and a member of the World Bank Advisory Board, Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. The Kerala University on May 18, 2000 decided to honor Nobel laureate Amartya Sen with an honorary doctorate in literature.
AGA KHAN AWARD
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years and is worth $70,000 (Rs 29.75 lakh). The 47-year-old Ahmedabad-based architect, Himanshu Parikh is the recipient of the coveted Award for his Indore project. The Award was earlier bestowed on two other Indian projects: the Bhopal Vidhan Sabha designed by Charles Correa and the Lepers' Hospital in Chopda Taluka constructed by two Norwegian architects.
BIB AWARD
Pulak Biswas became the only Indian to win the coveted Biennale of Illustrations Bratislava (BIB) award. The 58-year old Biswas is one of the best illustrators of India.
COMMONWEALTH PRIZE
Salman Rushdie and Raj Kamal Jha have won the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000 for the Eurasia region. Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet (published by Jonathan Cape) has won the Best Book prize and Jha's The Blue Bedspread (a Picador publication) was selected as the Best First Book from the region.
FELLOWSHIP OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY
Romila Thapar, the renowned historian, has been selected for the year 1999 Fellowship of the British Academy, Britain's highest academic honor in the social sciences.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Environmentalist Anil Agarwal has been jointly declared winner of the Global Environment Leadership Award for 2000. Agarwal, who is director of the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) in India, will share the award along with Denis Hayes, who initiated Earth Day in 1970.
KITCHENAID COOKBOOK AWARD
Madhur Jaffrey, the noted cookbook author and actress, was among the more than 60 recipients at the 10th Annual James Beard Foundation Awards on May 8, 2000. The KitchenAid Cookbook Award in the International category went to her for her latest book, "Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian".
The James Beard Foundation, a New York-based national nonprofit organization named after the cookbook author, journalist and chef regarded as the "father of American gastronomy," is dedicated to furthering culinary arts in America. The foundation's awards are the premier honours for food and beverage professionals.
LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
Calcutta’s best-known Indo-Anglican writer, Amit Chaudhuri, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, one of America’s most distinguished literary awards. Freedom Song, a collection of three of Chaudhuri’s novels — A Strange and Sublime Address, Afternoon Raag and Freedom Song — brought out by the American publishing giant Knopf last year, walked away with the prize for fiction from a particularly strong shortlist chosen from several thousand books.
PULITZER PRIZE
Ms. Jhumpa Lahiri, an author of Indian origin, won the 84th annual Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, featuring "marriages that have been arranged, rushed into, betrayed, invaded and exhausted.'' Jhumpa’s book had already won the PEN-Hemingway award.
ROOSEVELT AWARD
MS Swaminathan, noted crop scientist and the father of India's green revolution, has been selected for the prestigious Franklin D Roosevelt Four Freedoms medal for 2000, instituted by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosvelt Institute, in recognition of his leadership in the field of agriculture. Earlier recipients of this prestigious award include Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland and former US presidents Harry Truman, John F Kennedy and Jimmy Carter.
SOTHEBY’S ART PRIZE
Atul Dodiya of Mumbai has been selected for the Sotheby’s Art Prize ’99, which carries a cash award of Rs 3 lakh. This is the second year that Sotheby’s prize for Contemporary Indian Art is being awarded. Mr Dodiya has been selected from a shortlist of five artists that included Valsan Kolleri (Vadodara), Anita Dube (New Delhi) Surendran Nair (Vadodora) and Anandajit Ray (Vadodora).
UNESCO AWARD
India’s literacy Mission has won UNESCO’s prestigious Noma Literacy Prize for 1999. UNESCO’s jury singled out the Mission’s efforts to “galvanise activities towards national integration, conservation of the environment, promotion of women’s equality and the preservation of family customs and traditions”, apart from training, producing teaching-learning materials, setting up autonomous education bodies, creating awareness for education and raising the demand for quality and quantity of primary education. The $15000 Noma Prize was established in 1980 and is named after the Japanese publisher Noichi Noma.
UNESCO AVICENNA GOLD MEDAL
Anil Bordia, former Education Secretary and ex-chief of a non-formal education program in India, has been awarded the Unesco Avicenna Gold Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to basic education.
UNESCO MAHATMA GANDHI GOLD MEDAL
Harbhajan Singh, editor of the Indian Observer, has been selected for the Unesco Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal Award for his outstanding contributions in field of social work.
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM AWARD
Arun Shourie, former editor of The Indian Express and currently Union minister of state in the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions was one of 50 journalists who were conferred with 'World Press Freedom Award' of the International Press Institute (IPI) in Boston on May 3, 2000.
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