GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1979 to Mother Teresa. Thirty years ago Mother Teresa left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta in order to devote her life to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of that city.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mother Teresa is the only woman among the list of recipients. Sri Aurobindo, the Indian poet, philosopher, nationalist and developer of Integral yoga, was nominated unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mother Teresa was the only Indian female awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was called the “mother of the poor.” She was awarded the Bharat Ratna in 1980.