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New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Four eminent and enterprising personalities of Indian origin have won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Here is a quick look at them.

Gobind Behari Lal: He came to study at the University of California in Berkeley in 1912 on the Guru Govind Singh Sahib Scholarship. He later became the science editor of the San Francisco Examiner. He won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.

Jhumpa Lahiri: The 1967-born Indian American author won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her book “Interpreters of Maladies” in 2000. Her first novel “The Namesake” was adapted into a movie by Mira Nair. Lahiri, who is of Bengali descent, is currently a member of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities appointed by US President Barack Obama.

Geeta Anand: A journalist and writer of Indian origin, Anand writes for the Wall Street Journal and was earlier a political writer for the Boston Globe. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for her work on Pompe Disease, a muscular condition, which was made into a movie, “Extraordinary Measures”, and later a book, “The Cure”.

Siddhartha Mukherjee: An M.D., Ph.D., Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a cancer physician at the CU/NYU Presbyterian Hospital. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, and from Harvard Medical School, and was a Fellow at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an attending physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Neuron, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, the New York Times and the New Republic. He won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction in 2011 for his book, “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”.