Swaminathan was in Time's most influential people list
'Father of the Green Revolution' MS Swaminathan was placed in the 'Time 20' list of the most influential Asian people of the 20th century. Born on August 7, 1925, Swaminathan led the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice to avert a famine in India. Notably, the only other Indians in the list were Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.