The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology for year 2020 in Physical Sciences has been awarded to Dr Surajit Dhara of University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He has carried out inventive research on liquid crystals and colloids, investigated phenomena like directed assembly of colloids with tunable interactions, active colloids in liquid crystals, whispering gallery modes in liquid crystal droplets as sensitive detectors of phase transitions, discontinuous anchoring transitions and liquid crystal droplet-based tunable microresonators and microlasers.