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Jacob Mathew, Managing Editor of Malayala Manorama, writes about the camaraderie he shared with MS Swaminathan.
For Swaminathan, who died Thursday, aged 98, Wayanad was a second home.
A Padmashri in 1967, a Padmabhushan in 1972, a Padmavibhushan in 1989, his admirers were waiting for him to get the Bharat Ratna too and also cross 100 years in age.
Swaminathan brought a social revolution through his policies to rescue India from the famine-like circumstances in the 1960s.
While designing the Rs-2,139-cr Kuttanad Package, arguably the largest financial package for a single region, Swaminathan envisioned a comprehensive restoration of the region’s unique, sensitive ecology.
The actor who has been the face of various earth conservation activities was recently felicitated with the Green Crusader Award by Bhamla Foundation.
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