AWARDS/RECOGNITION:
National Science Talent Scholar, India, 1968–1977
Young Associate Award, Indian Academy of Sciences, 1983–1986
Presidential Young Investigator Award, U.S. National Science Foundation, 1989–1994
S. Datta Majumdar Mem. Lecture, Indian Inst. of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2000
Biermann Lecture Series, Max Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, Germany, 2002
George Darwin Lecture, Royal Astronomical Society (London), 2002
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London), 2006
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
Sackler Lecture, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge (UK), 2010
Hans Jensen Lecture, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2011
Distinguished Research Chair, Perimeter Institute, Canada, 2012–2018
Lewiner Institute Distinguished Lecture Series, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 2013
Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 2013
Vainu Bappu Memorial Lecture, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India, March 2015
Elected Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), 2015
Elected Honorary Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 2016