SUCCESS2011
May
Siddartha Mukherjee won the Pulitzer Prize for his first book, The Emperorof All
Maladies. The rest of the year continued in triumphant vein, with the oncologist picking up the Pen/E
O Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and The Guardian First Book Award. The book was listed
among Time magazine’s All Time 100 Best Nonfiction Books.
; Atul Gawande won
the National Magazine
Award in the public
interest category for his
August 2010
column ‘Letting Go’ in
The New Yorker, which
announced it would
publish Dr Gawande’s
new book based on his
article, ‘Being Mortal.’
Later in the year, he
scooped up the Health
Research and
Educational Trust’s
2011 Trust Award.
; Dr Samin Sharma,
Tejinder Bindra, Babu
Rao Mandava, Dr Manu
Vora, Dr Nitin Doshi
received the Ellis Island
Medal of Honor.
; Jai Singh, Managing
Editor, HuffingtonPost,
took over as Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo! Media
Network
; Kevin Negandhi, the
first Indian American on
a national sports
network, climbed his
personal Everest by
becoming an anchor on
ESPN SportsCenter.
; Ranee Ramaswamy,
credited with pioneering
South Asian dance in
the Midwest, became
the first danseuse to win
the McKnight
Distinguished Artist
Award, one of the top
recognitions among the
culture community.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, right, with Lee C Bollinger, President, Columbia University
COURTES Y : THE PULI TZER COMMI T TEE
