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Dr. M S Swaminathan Profile, Early Life, Education, Family Background
Father of Green Revolution in India, Dr.Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan Profile, Early Life, Education, Family Background
Dr.Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan Indian geneticist and International administrator. he was born Kumbakonam on 7th August 1925. he was the second son of surgeon Dr.M.K. Sambasivan and Parvati Thangammal Sambasivan.
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan father Surgeon M.K. Sambasivan a follower of Mahatma Gandhi led in opening the temples to Dalits, part of the temple entry movement of the Indian Independence movement in Tamil Nadu, an area eradicating filariasis in Kumbakonam an area long infected with the dreaded disease.
The sense of service to one's fellow man was thus ingrained in him early. after his father's death when he was 11, young Swaminathan was looked after by his uncle, M.K. Narayanaswami, a radiologist.
Dr. M.S. Swaminathan attended the local high school in Kumbakonam from which he matriculated at age 15. he naturally took admission in medical school, because coming from a family of doctors. but when he witnessed the Great Bengal famine of 1943, he decided to devote his life for getting rid of hunger from India.
After graduating in Zoology, he enrolled in Madras Agricultural college and graduated with B.Sc. in Agricultural Science.
