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Detailed explanation-1: -Indian origin journalist Megha Rajagopalan, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed secretly built China’s mass detention camps for Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province.

Detailed explanation-2: -The correct answer is Megha Rajagopalan. Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, has won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing China’s vast infrastructure for detaining Muslims. She shared the award with two colleagues namely Alison Killing and Christo Buschek, all of are from internet media, BuzzFeed News.

Detailed explanation-3: -Siddiqui and his colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave from the Reuters news agency won the award, announced on Monday, for “images of Covid’s toll in India that balanced intimacy and devastation, while offering viewers a heightened sense of place”, according to The Pulitzer Prizes website.

Detailed explanation-4: -The five Indian origin people who have won Pulitzer prize are Vijay Seshadri, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Geeta Anand, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gobin Behari Lal.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Pulitzer Prize 2022 in different fields of journalism, book, drama and music were announced on 9 May. The award winners include Indian journalists Adnan Abidi, Sana Irshad Mattoo, Amit Dave along with The Washington Post. The late Danish Siddiqui of Reuters photographer has been given this award posthumously.