 Honours and awards won by Indians have recognised their contribution to a wide range of fields. Covering literary and artistic creativity, the sciences, welfare economics and charity, manifestations of the spirit of India. Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments of narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth. Rabindranath Tagore enriched every field of human thought in action. See the Raman, he made a spectrograph and found that a transformation occurs when ordinary light has been scattered by matter. This is now known as the Raman effect. Har Gobind Khurana found his place in the history of science only in the laboratories of Wisconsin University in Madison. It was left to Khurana to decipher the genetic code and create an artificial gene for the first time. Subramanian Chandrasekhar, he was 18 when he was trying to develop new theories in astrophysics. Early in life Chandrasekhar asked himself what will be the outcome of the different phases of matter in the form of gas, liquid and solid if enormous matter is related to a high increase of temperature that has come to be known as the Chandrasekhar limiting mass. What is peace? The precise definition still eludes us. But to Mother Teresa, all works of love are works of peace. A little child in the mother's womb is a human being from the moment of conception. Let us pray to help that little child to be born. Behind Amartha Sen's credo of economics with a passionate human concern lies the childhood memories of a ten year old who bore witness to the terrible man-made famine of 1943-44 in Bengal. Sen's theory of poverty and famine is deeply related to his capability theory. All these six personalities have served in their distinctive ways to add to the wealth of civilization. The Nobel Prizes awarded to them have been an acknowledgement of India's intellectual and spiritual genius expressing itself through the individual achievements of the six.