Sketch the Character of Swaminathan in about 350 words??
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Mankombu Sambasivan Swaminathan (born 7 August 1925) is an Indian geneticist and international administrator, renowned for his leading role in India's Green Revolution, a program under which high-yield varieties of wheat and rice seedlings were planted in the fields of poor farmers. Swaminathan is known as the "Father of Green Revolution in India" for his leadership and success in introducing and further developing high-yielding varieties of wheat in India. He is the founder of the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation . His stated vision is to rid the world of hunger and poverty.Swaminathan is an advocate of moving India to sustainable development, especially using environmentally sustainable agriculture, yipee sustainable food security and the preservation of biodiversity, which he calls an "evergreen revolution."
From 1972 to 1979 he was director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. He was Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture from 1979 to 1980. He served as Director General of the International Rice Research Institute (1982–88) and became president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources in 1988.
In 1999, Time magazine placed him in the 'Time 20' list of most influential Asian people of the 20th century.
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Swami And Friends Character Analysis
Swaminathan (Swami)
The protagonist of the novel Swaminathan (Swami) is a school going boy. He belongs to a South Indian middle-class family. His family comprises of his grandmother, mother, father, and mother. In the initial trenches of the story, his younger brother was born. He epitomizes the innocence of a youth mischievousness that childhood necessitates.
His Family and Friends
Swami’s mother Lakshmi is a homemaker and his father, W. T. Srinivasan, a lawyer. He is seen irritating his family members in the novel. Also, he himself sometimes gets irritated by the way his family scolds him. He takes his family for granted and to some extent, it can be said that he is not given proper attention after his brother was born. He was unbearable to his mother. There were times when his mother thought of giving up on him. He inherited a kind of revengeful quality in him after he got ignored by his mother. But it was not the same for his father. Srinivasan, even though he was a bit rude to him he has always been his soft corner. Swami tries every time and again to win sympathy for his grandmother. He dislikes staying at home and likes spending his time idly.
He has got Rajam and Mani as his fast friends. Swami was not an extraordinary character. Like all the other boys of his age, he likes spending time with his companions.
Mani is Swaminathan’s best friend. Swami’s family is comfortable in the sense of finance, as we can see from his father’s job or lifestyle as a lawyer. But Mani isn’t. His family lives in poverty. He is not regular in his school attendance and is a backbencher. Even though he is faint-hearted and timid he becomes aggressive and undisciplined at times. With all his companions, Mani stands to be the strongest and largest. He does not care to bully anyone coming in his path. But it is worth mentioning that his bond of friendship with Swami never lessens.
Rajam’s life is the complete opposite of Mani. He is sincere in his academics and has self-respect. The author portrayed him with a delightful personality. Initially, Mani had enmity towards Rajam as he was living a rich lifestyle and feels Rajam to be doing show-offs. But later, Rajam solves this problem and he forwards his hand of friendship to him. He also invited them to his home which played a vital role in suppressing the enmity. Apparently, Rajam justifies everything with a concrete reason. On the other hand, Mani was smart enough to accept his friendship.
Swami’s Parents
Swami’s father, W. T. Srinivasan was a lawyer of a good rank and his mother Lakshmi was a homemaker. He gets irritated by his family members as he feels he is not given much attention.
He is unbearable to his mother and he also becomes revengeful on being ignored by her. But his father had a soft corner for him despite being so nasty and troublesome. One of the incidents that prove his father’s calmness is his ‘Lending his Room’. Rajam promised Swaminathan to pay a visit. Swami was both excited and conscious. So, he asked his father if he could lend his room, full of books and reading materials.
Swami’s Grandmother

Swami’s grandmother was a short and fat and a slightly bent woman. She was a notably a religious woman. She had inner beauty intact with her rather than physical. She was not an attractive woman as she herself says she wasn’t pretty. He lived with her in his childhood days. He describes her as a good friend of his. She used to wake him up during the school days and prepare breakfast for him. After the breakfast is being done his grandmother hand over the pen, wooden slate, and earthen ink-pot to him. While Swami attended school his grandmother would study the scriptures in the temple which his nearby his school.
Later when he shifted to the city he never went to school with her; instead, he went on the school bus. He himself agrees that his relationship with his grandmother has changed a lot during these times as she no longer assisted him in doing his homework. Besides, Swami got some advanced subjects which are beyond the experience and expertise of the grandmother.
Swami’s grandmother became distanced from him and other people. Unlike before she spent most of her time spinning, feeding the sparrows which falls on the garden and since she was a religious person she kept herself busy with praying. When Swaminathan went abroad for his further studies, his grandma didn’t speak to him. She kissed him on the forehead before they got separated.
Five years later when Swami came back home, his Grandma welcomed him home. Her actions showed her great love towards her grandson. For Swami, she will still beautiful because she continued to love him. After her death, Swami notes that his grandma never stopped loving him.