6th Indian Nobel

Amartya Sen, the sixth Indian to have won the Nobel prize, is the first asian to win it for economics.

The other Indians who bagged the Nobel prize earlier were Rabindranath Tagore, C V Raman, Hargobind Khorana, Mother Teresa and Subramanian Chandrasekhar.

Tagore, author of India's national anthem, was the first Indian to win the Nobel prize for literature in 1913 for his book of poems "Geetanjali".

Physicist c v raman was honoured with the Nobel prize in 1930 for his work on behaviour of light later known as "Raman effect".

Khorana, who later accepted American citizenship, was awarded the coveted prize for medicine in 1968 for his interpretation of genetic code and its function in protein synthesis.