Prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman for Telangana man

It has been a journey of hope, desire and achievement, from a small Telangana village to a top university in Japan and to finally be selected for the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman — an award constituted by the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs, Government of India, to honour exceptional contribution in various fields. Muralidhar Muthyala, professor at Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, is perhaps one of the youngest to be felicitated with this prestigious award at the 16th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas held virtually this year. He is also perhaps the only awardee who is born and educated in India, but surely the lone recipient who studied in a Telugu medium government school.