The child rights crusader, shared the Nobel Peace prize for 2014 with Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai for "their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education". He is the first India-born activist to win the Peace Nobel.
Tagore was the first Indian to win the coveted prize for Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West".
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian origin and Indian citizenship who founded 'The Missionaries of Charity' was awarded the Peace Nobel in 1979 in recognition of her "work in bringing help to suffering humanity".
The Nobel for Economic Sciences in 1998 was won by Kolkata-born economist Sen "for his contributions to welfare economics."
Other than this, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, of which Rajendra K Pachauri is the chairman, won the Peace Nobel in 2007.
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