India, Oct. 22 -- The Nobel Prize is more than a medal it is a mirror reflecting where the world's deepest innovations and humanistic ideas emerge. Every October, when new laureates are announced, a quiet disappointment ripples through Asia a continent brimming with talent yet rarely seeing its intellectual sons and daughters among the Nobel ranks. The question is not whether Asians are capable of brilliance history has already proved that. The question is why does that brilliance seldom translate into Nobel recognition?

The answer lies not in individual shortcomings but in a collective failure of systems our educational ecosystems, research culture, and societal values that still orbit imitation rather than imagination. From the bustlin...