Aparajith Ramnath has become the winner of the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation (NIF) Book Prize 2025 for ‘Engineering a Nation: The Life and Career of M Visvesvaraya’. The award honours exceptional non-fiction writing on modern and contemporary Indian history, with Ramnath’s book standing out for its scholarship that reconstructs the storied life of M Visvesvaraya (1861–1962), arguably the most famous Indian engineer of the 20th century. The award carries a cash prize of Rs 15 lakh, a trophy, and a citation, and will be awarded at the 14th edition of the Bangalore Literature Festival on December 6.

The jury for the 2025 KCBP includes N Chandrasekaran (chairman of Tata Sons and Tata Group), Manish Sabharwal (entrepreneur), Niraja Gopal Jayal (political scientist), Srinath Rag

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