The goal of my University education was to get into a medical college and equip myself to run a hospital in Kumbakonam left behind by my father, M.K. Sambasivan, who died at a young age in 1936.

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

  If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right.

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  The Green Revolution was criticised by social activists on the ground that the high-yield technolog

• M. S. Swaminathan:

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

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• M. S. Swaminathan:

  In spite of the dominant role played by women in both farming, they are denied credit as they lack

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  A number of non-banking finance companies have entered the rural microcredit market. Many microcred

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potentia

• M. S. Swaminathan:

  Land tenure is key to protecting land rights. The Central and State governments should have accessi