Photos: Kailash Satyarthi enters Indian Nobel Prize winners' club
Kailash Satyarthi, childs right activist won the Nobel Peace Prize. With this, he has entered elite club which includes Tagore, Mother Teresa and C V Raman.
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Kailash Satyarthi, founder of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. He shared the award with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai. With this award, Satyarthi has entered the list of elite club. Here's the list of the Indians who made the country and the world proud. Wikimedia
Bengali polymath who reshaped India's culture of literature and music. Author of Gitanjali, Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Wikimedia
Born in Thiruvanaikaval, near Tiruchirapalli, Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman or C V Raman won the Nobel for Physics in 1930. He had been knighted only the year before and worked extensively on acoustics and light. Wikipedia
Har Gobind Khurana, an Indian-American biochemist shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Marshall W Nirenberg and Robert W Holley for research that helped to show how the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell, control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Wikipedia
Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxiu in Skopje, a then city in Ottoman Empire. She was a nun of Albanian origin and Indian citizenship. She founded the international order of "The Missionaries of Charity" and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work in bringing help to the suffering humanity. Wikipedia
An Indian-American astrophysicist born in Lahore, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his mathematical theory of black holes, which was a key discovery that led to the currently accepted theory on the later evolutionary stages of massive stars. Wikipedia
In 1998, Amartya Sen became the first Indian to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics. Reuters
Born on 11 January, 1954, Kailash Satyarthi is a renowned activist working in the area of child labour. Satyarthi heads the Global March Against Child Labour, and through his movements have rescued over 80,000 children. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai.