Q. Who among the following have won the most coveted award for journalists across the world, the Pulitzer?
- Gobind Behari Lal
- Geeta Anand
- Sanghamitra Kalita
- Jhumpa Lahiri
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
Answer:
1, 2, 3 & 4
Notes:
- Indian-American journalist Gobind Behari Lal, member of the Ghadar Party in America, was the first from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937. He won the award for coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University. He also received the Padma Bhushan in 1969.
- In 2003, Mumbai-born Geeta Anand won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on corporate corruption.
- In 2016, Indian-American Sanghamitra Kalita won the Pulitzer for their coverage of the San Bernardino shooting in California in 2015 and the terror investigation that followed.
- In 2000, London-born Indian-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her debut short story collection Interpreter of Maladies.
- In 2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee (Indian-American physician, biologist and author) won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his demystification of cancer in The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
- Danish Siddiqui was also awarded the Pulitzer in 2018 for his images of the Rohingya refugee crisis. He was part of the team from Reuters that bagged the award, which included another co-recipient from this year, Adnan Abidi.
- Adnan Abidi also won in the 2020 Pulitzer for covering the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests.
- In 2020, Channi Anand, Mukhtar Khan and Dar Yasin won the Pulitzer in the Feature Photography category “for striking images captured during a communications blackout in Kashmir depicting life in the contested territory as India stripped it of its semi-autonomy,”