Norman Borlaug

Norman Borlaug breathed his last on 13th September at a ripe age of 95. He was a scientist, a revolutionary and above all a great man. Rightly honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize for in 1970, he helped millions to fight hunger,especially India. The 'dwarf' strain of wheat (which was definitely not dwarf in any way) which he had produced found way into the stomach of millions of Indians. He was a soldier, a hunger fighter.

In a country like India where diversity and differences are so overpowering that with the name so well achieved as the back office of world and IT hub and all, she also harbours in her womb world's 1/6 th population of hungry poor.

Once while staying in a PG....... i had slept during dinner time and thus skipped dinner, the hunger pangs had kept me awake the whole night and finally i had to sit up on the bed and eat a packet of snacks which my sister had given me. That was the only night i knew hunger. I am one of the few blessed indians who don't have to go through the ordeal of thinking about hunger, and the only thing i knew about it was that my dad once told me that hunger is the best appetiser.

Thanks Norman for giving us food security and helping our country to become self sufficient in food production. Thank you M S Swaminathan, it is because of people so great like you that world's still seems a better place to live.