India, Nov. 10 -- Siddhartha Mukherjee is a pioneering physician, oncologist, and author whose elegant exploration of public health and medicine has transformed our understanding of the human body and mind. Born in New Delhi, he studied biology at Stanford University, earned a DPhil in immunology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and completed his medical degree at Harvard Medical School. A faculty member of medicine at Columbia University, Mukherjee gained international renown with his book, The Emperor of All Maladies, which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. He further explored the foundations of biology and clinical history in widely lauded works, including The Gene: An Intimate History. Conferred the Padma Shri in 2014, he c...