Tathagata Roy, who identifies himself as a right-wing thinker, criticised the Bengali Nobel laureate after he was called out on social media for tweeting in favour of the feat
He had also won the Infosys prize in Social Sciences in the year 2009 for his contributions to the economics of development, and empirical evaluation of public policy
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to three physician-scientists for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.
Tokarczuk and Handke each take home a cheque worth nine million kronor.
The prize went to John B Goodenough of the University of Texas; M Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.