(Oct 22, 2026) Born in Chennai and raised in rural England, Sir Shankar Balasubramanian is a 2026 Wolf Prize in Chemistry laureate, honoured alongside David Klenerman and Pascal Mayer for their contributions to DNA sequencing. The Cambridge professor, who also won the...
(Jul 1, 2026) From growing up in Chennai to becoming MIT’s first Indian-American provost and now the only Indian-origin faculty member honoured in the Institute’s ‘Committed to Caring’ cohort, Dr. Anantha P. Chandrakasan’s journey has...
(Jun 20, 2026) In a field often dominated by texts, translations, and distance, Sravana Borkataky-Varma has chosen to step into the lived, breathing world of religion. A historian of South Asian religions, she has built a career that spans some of the most prestigious...
(December 18, 2025) Deblina Sarkar’s journey traces the extraordinary arc of upringing in rural West Bengal to engineering classrooms in IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, and eventually to the frontiers of brain science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Trained as an...
(Jun 5, 2025) From a quiet homecoming in 1981 to building India’s first university-based research park, Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala transformed how research meets reality. The Padma Shree awardee has left his mark across diverse domains, from wireless telephony and mobile...
