In The Lives of India s Nobel Laureates, 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).

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.

The Lives of India s Nobel Laureates 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.