M. S. Swaminathan

Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in Indias Green Revolution a program under which highyield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers. Swaminathan is known as Indian Father of Green Revolution for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing highyielding varieties of wheat in India. He is the founder and chairman of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation. His stated vision is to rid the world of hunger and poverty. Swaminathan is an advocate of moving India to sustainable development, especially using environmentally sustainable agriculture, sustainable food security and the preservation of biodiversity, which he calls an evergreen revolution.

M. S. Swaminathan was born in Kumbakonam onAugust 1925. He was the second son of surgeon Dr. M.K. Sambasivan and Parvati Thangammal Sambasivan. M.S. Swaminathan learnt from his father, that the word impossible exists mainly in our minds and that given the requisite will and effort, great tasks can be accomplished. Surgeon M.K. Sambasivam, a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, took the lead in Kumbakonam in burning his foreign clothes, a symbolic act in support of the Swadeshi movement which emphasized the use of Indian rather than foreignmade clothes, and handloomed rather than millspun cloth. The political purpose of the swadeshi movement was to free India from dependence on foreign imports and to protect village industry. His father led in opening the temples to Dalits, part of the temple entry movement of the Indian independence movement in Tamil Nadu, and in eradicating filariasis in Kumbakonom, an area long infected with the dread disease. The sense of service to ones fellow man was th

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