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He was born in Lalitpor, India, the oldest of 10 children. (This is a photo with his mother and all of his siblings. He's the one on the top right with the beard.)
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He went to the local primary school, a Catholic school, when he was 5.
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He went to the local middle/high school from 6th-8th grade.
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He left his home and went to a different province for high school, in order to get the best possible education.
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He took a gap year in between high school and university. He learned Urdu, a language spoken in parts of India, during that year.
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He got his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering in 1972 from IIT Kanpur.
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He got his MS in chemical engineering from University of Delaware.
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He got his PhD in chemical engineering at University of Delaware.
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He was an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Columbia.
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When he moved to New York, he was introduced to lots of parts of Western culture, including opera, ballet and dance, and art. He developed a lifelong appreciation for all of those art forms.
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He served first as an assistant, then an associate, then finally a full professor of chemical engineering.
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He became a full professor at Carnagie Mellon at age 32.
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He first took a semester at MIT in the chemical engineering department, then split the spring semester between UCSD (in the bioengineering department) and Stanford (in the radiology and radiation oncology department).
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While living in California on sabbatical, he started swimming regularly, and has never stopped.
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He spent one semester at the University of Mainz in the Institute of Pathophisiology. He then spent the other semester at the University of Munich in the Institute for Surgical Research, at the Grosshadern Hospital.
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He became the Andrew Werk Cook Professor of Radiation Oncology (Tumor Biology) at Harvard Medical School at the age of 40.
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He became the director of the Edwin L. Steele Laboratory at MGH, studying tumor biology.
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He took my mom to The Helmand, an Afghani restaurant in Cambridge.
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My dad and mom got married.
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My twin sister and I were born at MGH in Boston. (I'm the one facing the camera, and my sister Anjali is looking down.)
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He was awarded the National Medal of Science by Obama for his work in vascular normalization and understanding the tumor microenvironment.
