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<div class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded" data-expanded="true">In <span class="a-text-italic">The Lives of India s Nobel Laureates</span>, we meet nine extraordinary Indians who devoted their lives to their work and were awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize for their contributions Rabindranath Tagore (1913), C. V. Raman (1930), Har Gobind Khorana (1968), Mother Teresa (1979), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1983), Amartya Sen (1998), Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (2009), Kailash Satyarthi (2014), and Abhijit V. Banerjee (2019).<br /><br />From Rabindranath Tagore s reminiscences of his childhood, to Khorana s upbringing in a small village in Punjab and his journey to MIT; from Mother Teresa finding her calling at the age of twelve, to C. V. Raman s move from government service to his groundbreaking discovery that later became known as the Raman effect; from Amartya Sen s recollection of growing up in Santiniketan to Ramakrishnan s transition from physics to biology and his research on unravelling the structure of the ribosome; from Kailash Satyarthi s decision to devote his life to fight for children s rights, and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar s lifelong pursuit to understand the structure of the stars, to Abhijit V. Banerjee accidentally finding himself drawn to economics each essay offers a glimpse into the life and work of a Nobel laureate, the people and places that shaped them, the questions that drove them, and the experiences that changed the course of their lives.<br /><br /><span class="a-text-italic">The Lives of India s Nobel Laureates</span> brings together these timeless stories of human endeavour and captures the ordinary lives of these nine Indians and their journey on the long, often unglamorous road to greatness.</div>
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About the Author
Urvashi Prasad is a public health and policy professional, writer, and patient advocate. From 2016 to 2024, she served at the NITI Aayog, India s apex policy institution. She is a senior fellow at Pahle India Foundation, editor-in-chief of the Global South Healthcare Journal, and a British Council Alumni UK Ambassador for SDG 10.
She is also executive director of ALK Positive India, India s first oncogene-specific lung cancer support group; co-founder of the White Ribbon Project India; and founding director of PAVANA, the Centre for Air Pollution and Environmental Health. Her work spans financial toxicity, access to modern therapies, air pollution, and young adult cancers. She also supports children in poverty, children with cancer, patients of tuberculosis, and street animals. A genetics graduate of the University of Birmingham which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2026 she holds an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from Cambridge and an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 2025,
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