Historian Wins Prize for Visvesvaraya Biography

A historian named Aparajith Ramnath wrote a book about M Visvesvaraya, a famous Indian engineer.

The book won a big prize called the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize.

Ramnath talked about how he became interested in Visvesvaraya's life and what he learned while writing the book.

Visvesvaraya did many important things like building dams, creating water supply systems, and setting up schools for engineers.

Ramnath thinks Visvesvaraya's story is still important today because he focused on making people's lives better and believed in education and social reform.

The book took seven years to research and write, and Ramnath looked at many old documents and talked to Visvesvaraya's family to learn more about him.