फूलों को देखो, कैसे सद्भाव से दूसरों को अपनी खुशबू एवं शहद देते हैं! वे अपना स्नेह सभी में बिना किसी भेदभाव के बाँटते हैं। जब उनका कार्य समाप्त हो जाता ह… - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I shared with the ninety-year-old Subramaniam his vision of a second Green Revolution. He told me about his dream of setting up a national agro foundation that would develop hybrid seeds. His foundation would adopt small and marginal farmers and provide them with laboratory facilities for soil testing and access to information on the weather and markets, so that they could earn more through enhanced yields and better prices for what they produced. He aimed at bringing a million farmers under the scheme. Visionaries don’t age!

I wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.

came. Despite the huge challenge, it was also a project right after my heart and fired my imagination too. We moved from the design