The work of the winners has potential impact in the areas of accessible healthcare and diagnostics, inclusive economic and social policy design, a better understanding of our mental health and how our Constitution protects India’s democratic polity. The winners, across categories such as Engineering and Computer Science, Humanities, Life Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences were felicitated with a pure gold medal, a citation and a prize purse of USD 100,000. The announcement about the winners of the Infosys Prize 2022 has already been reported in November 2022.
I would like to dwell on few aspects highlighted by jury members. Like the discussion of the Universe by Prof. Shrinivas Kulkarni (California Institute of Technology) for Physical Sciences. “Going by astronomical investigations, when the Universe began 13.4 billion years ago, which we know as Big Bang, there was just helium and hydrogen gas. Then came 100 billion...