Noted Indian (and Dosco) author Amitav Ghosh (246-H '72) has won the prestigious Dan David Prize for his remarkable reworking of the great tradition of the Western novel in transnational terms.
The one million dollar award is a joint international enterprise endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University.
It is annually awarded in three different fields - Archaeology, Performing Arts and Material Science - in the three-dimension time framework of past, present and future.
Ghosh, is the third Indian to win the award, joining an elite league comprising of chemist CNR Rao and musician Zubin Mehta.
Amitav will be sharing the prize in the present dimension with Dr Gordon E Moore, whose Moore's Law has become the guiding principle for the semiconductor industry to deliver ever-more-powerful chips while decreasing the cost of electronics.
Our heartiest congratulations to Amitav. He continues to make the Dosco fraternity proud.
This news was published by the Press Trust of India on April 28, 2010 and subsequently reported by the Hindustan Times.
Kishore K. Lahiri
30-K(B) '74