[3][4][5] A multiple nominee for Nobel Peace Prize,[6] he was honored by the Government of India, in 2001, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
[7] Since I am treated as entirely disabled in the United States, this is my way of coming back to my country and contributing to life around me.
[3] Sharad Kumar Dixit was born in Pandharpur, Solapur district, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra on 13 December 1930,[3][8] as one among the six children of a post master.
[9] Dixit, whom Lester Silver, the plastic surgeon at the Mount Sinai Medical Center termed as an ethical and moral giant,[9] founded The India Project in 1968[2] for providing plastic surgery treatment for the poor sections of the Indian society.
[3] While his tenure at the Fairbanks Hospital, Dixit met with a car accident in 1978[5][8] which rendered him paralysed and confined to a wheel chair.
[3][10] He received US$ 100,000 as cash[9] for the 2001 Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award[3][5][10] which was reportedly utilized for his humanitarian efforts in India.