Congratulations are in the queue and celebrations are at peak in India after glorious achievement of Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Indian-American structural biologist, who has been awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2009 along with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E Yonath. He is an Indian who has nourished and flourished his talent on foreign shores. For past couple of decades, Indians have been proving their distinct excellence elsewhere in the world. Venkataraman left India at the age 18 to pursue higher studies and since then he’s been living in the US.
Once again the debate has started across the country: Can an Indian who has cultivated their talent on native earth win the Nobel Prize in science? C V Raman, Nobel laureate in physics, was the last Indian in India who won the most prestigious prize in 1930. It’s been almost eighty years now and India has given birth and nurtured thousands of promising scientists. India has proved to be a fertile land, where talents are born, by giving innumerable talents at par with international standards. Some top IT companies such as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Sun etc. heavily rely on Indian professionals. Even NASA and Pentagon recruit promising students from India. Things have certainly changed. In coming years, I hope, we’ll see some Indian scientists(from Indian shore) winning this prestigious award.
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