About the Book: M S Swaminathan (The Man Who Fed India)
M S Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India offers a detailed look into the life and
monumental work of M S Swaminathan, the father of the Green Revolution. The
biography starts from his childhood in Kumbakonam and his early inspirations
that set him on the path to becoming an agricultural scientist, to his studies
and early career in a newly independent India that was still trying to become
truly independent. It then delves into the breakthrough with Normal Borlaug that
saved India and made her self-sustainable, following which Swaminathan delivered
a vast majority of