India’s 7 Nobel laureates grace Rajiv Chowk Metro walls
NEW DELHI: DMRC in collaboration with Swedish Embassy has set up a Nobel memorial wall at Rajiv Chowk Metro station.
An exhibition on the country's Nobel laureates and their work will be
on display at the station on November 9-15—the Nobel Memorial Week.
As this year marks the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore receiving the Nobel Prize in literature, the week has been dedicated to him. "Special focus has been given to Tagore on the wall, with a bust of India's poet par excellence against the original text of his Nobel Prize nomination procured by the embassy from the Swedish Academy," an official said. In addition, the Nobel Memorial Wall displays portraits of the Indian Nobel Laureates—CV Raman, Dr Hargobind Khorana, Mother Teresa, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Amartya Sen and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation managing director Mangu Singh and Ambassador of Sweden H E Harald Sandberg unveiled the wall on Saturday.
As this year marks the centenary of Rabindranath Tagore receiving the Nobel Prize in literature, the week has been dedicated to him. "Special focus has been given to Tagore on the wall, with a bust of India's poet par excellence against the original text of his Nobel Prize nomination procured by the embassy from the Swedish Academy," an official said. In addition, the Nobel Memorial Wall displays portraits of the Indian Nobel Laureates—CV Raman, Dr Hargobind Khorana, Mother Teresa, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Amartya Sen and Venkatraman Ramakrishnan. Delhi Metro Rail Corporation managing director Mangu Singh and Ambassador of Sweden H E Harald Sandberg unveiled the wall on Saturday.
by the times of india
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