01158nam a2200193 4500 20260519162027.0 260519b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789369890231 630.92 JAY Jayakumar, Priyambada M. S. Swaminathan: the man who fed India New Delhi: HarperCollins; c2025. xlvi, 276p. Includes bibliographical and reference index. This remarkable and moving biography captures the life and times of this extraordinary hero, tracing his life from his childhood in Kumbakonam and his early introduction to agriculture and his eventual association with Nobel laureate, Norman Borlaug, which ultimately led to the Green Revolution. The book also takes an attentive look at all the various roles he deftly juggled in his long and illustrious career–that of a conservationist, an ardent feminist, a technocrat, a lifelong Gandhian, a philosopher, a diplomat and a celebrated institution builder–both in India and abroad. Agricultural scientist Biography India Green revolution India ddc 0 C 30855 30855 0 0 ddc 0 0 IMI IMI 2026-05-12 0 630.92 JAY 22441 2026-05-19 16:21:46 2026-05-19 C