Why India should realise that not winning a Nobel Prize is not a bad thing

Winning a Nobel Prize may be a good thing. But not winning a Nobel Prize is not a bad thing

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes are being announced this week. The prizes are an opportunity to discover new areas of research and developments there that scientists consider particularly notable. In this endeavour, it is equally necessary to remember what the Nobel Prizes are not.

For starters, the Nobel Prizes are not lenses through which to view all scientific pursuit. It is important for everyone – scientists and non-scientists alike – to not take the Nobel Prizes too seriously.

The prizes have been awarded to white men from Europe and the US most of the time, across the medicine,