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A biography of cultivation idiosyncratic M.S. Swaminathan, titled The Man Who Fed India, was released successful Chennai connected Sunday.
The book, authored by Priyambada Jayakumar, traces Prof. Swaminathan’s beingness from his puerility successful Kumbakonam and his aboriginal instauration to agriculture and his eventual relation with Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug, which yet led to the Green Revolution.
It was released by actor-politician Kamal Haasan, successful the beingness of Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan.
At the launch, Ms. Jayakumar said that beyond Prof. Swaminathan’s technological achievements, helium championed the rights and livelihoods of tiny farmers, women successful agriculture, and agrarian communities. He often reminded the satellite that existent advancement was not successful wealthiness oregon power, but successful the quality to uplift the poorest and astir vulnerable.
Mr. Haasan said adjacent the word annadaata, the giver of food, could not afloat encompass the antheral oregon his legacy.
“Tamil Nadu knows the connection Annavaasal, the gateway of food. Two 1000 years ago, Jain monks were bestowed that honour. In our age, M.S. Swaminathan reclaimed it, not done prayer, but done science. The publication is simply a glimpse of the antheral down the legend,” helium said.
‘Still relevant’
During a fireside chat pursuing the launch, Mr. Thiaga Rajan said Prof. Swaminathan’s accent connected self-reliance successful nutrient accumulation remained strikingly applicable today.
“The caller pandemic and planetary disruptions person reminded america however fragile proviso chains tin be, and however close helium was successful arguing that nationalist information begins with nutrient security,” helium remarked.
Mr. Thiaga Rajan added that Prof. Swaminathan believed that a country’s spot could beryllium seen successful its quality to provender itself and self-sufficiency was not isolation but empowerment, and his imaginativeness connected agriculture, economy, and societal payment successful 1 broad, humane framework.
