The Nobel announcements for 2025 are under way. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries that explain how the immune system restrains itself — research on peripheral immune tolerance that helped define regulatory T-cells and opened pathways in autoimmune care and cancer therapy. The award, unveiled by the Nobel Assembly in Stockholm, kicks off a week in which the rest of the prizes will be named. With that global canvas in view, it is a fitting moment to revisit India’s century-long presence at the Nobels: What they won for and when, where they studied, and how their careers unfolded. Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for Gitanjali , a body of verse whose spare lyricism and philosophical

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