Mahan Maharaj of Ramkrishna mission wins the highest academic honor for math in India
Chetan Narain
Oct. 30, 2011

Mahan Maharaj received this year's Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award for mathematics, the highest academic honour in the country. This is the first time that any monk has won the award.

The Berkeley educated 45-year-old monk is fluent in English, Hindi and Bengali. He studied in St Xavier's Collegiate School till Class XII and cracked IITJEE to enter the prestigious IIT Kanpur to study electrical engineering. Soon, he realized that he was not enjoying this field of study and changed to mathematics. After completing his MSc, he went to University of California, Berkeley. After coming back from US, he renounced the world and became a monk.

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