The Oscars of Indian Science have been awarded. Read about it at nanopolitan.
For those interested in looking this up in wikipedia, the pages on Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award lacks details and could use some updates. The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar page is yet to be created.
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