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I am enjoying reading the book The Man Who Fed India by @pjchowdhry23 especially loved the Author's Note.I just couldn't agree more with this line she mentioned there - "Food, more than anything else, is the ultimate currency of life". Thank you @harpercollinsin for sending this lovely book. : 🌾Book Blurb: 'Dr Saab, we will take up your seeds!' said the intrepid farmer from Jaunti, a village near Delhi. This was the turning point a young undaunted scientist named Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (M.S. Swaminathan) was looking for. It was that giant leap of faith that would help him engineer the agricultural transformation christened the 'Green Revolution' that would be the crucial hinge on which the fortunes of the country would eventually turn and leapfrog her destiny from the 'begging bowl' to the 'breadbasket'. Swaminathan worked tirelessly against tremendous odds to disprove doomsday prophecies and Malthusian theories, with a simple but profound four-letter word philosophy--food; and the idea that food and nutrition security were paramount for human progress. 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. : #greenrevolution #scientist #themanwhofedindia #msswaminathan #priyambadajayakumar #readwithme #bookstagramindia #unitedbookstagram #bookcommunity

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