• Four Indian photographers Adnan Abidi, Danish Siddiqui, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography and coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India.

• Pulitzer Prize is awarded for outstanding public service and achievement in American journalism, letters, and music.
• It is awarded in the name of Joseph Pulitzer, a newspaper publisher who gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Prize.
• It was established in 1917 and is administered by Columbia University and Pulitzer Prize Board.
• Each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.
• In 1937, a member of the Ghadar Party in America, Indian-American journalist Gobind Behari Lal was the first from India who won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
• Framed in 1904 the award was instituted according to Pulitzer’s will where he made a provision for the establishment of the Pulitzer Prizes as an incentive for excellence and after his death in 1911, the first Pulitzer Prize was awarded in June 1917.

Indians/Indian origins who have previously won the Pulitzer:

• Gobind Behari: the first from India to win the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 1937.
• Jhumpa Lahiri
• Geeta Anand
• Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Sanghamitra Kalita