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India’s Nobel Prize paradox: A long gap for laureates and why Mahatma Gandhi remains the most famous non-winner

India’s history at Nobel stage India’s first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1913 to Rabindranath Tagore for Literature. Rabindranath Tagore became the first Asian Nobel laureate, honoured for his ...
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Alfred Nobel, creator of dynamite and high-minded prizes

Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel, who made a vast fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, ordered the creation of the famous Nobel prizes in his will. His 1895 testament stipulated ...