MS Swaminathan: The scientist who saved India from hunger

The year was 1965.

On a Sunday in Jaunti, a small village on Delhi's outskirts, a hardened Indian farmer stretched out his hand to a visiting farm scientist.

"Dr sahib, we will take up your seed," he said.

The scientist was MS Swaminathan - later hailed by Time magazine as "the Godfather of the Green Revolution" and ranked a

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