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Mina Swaminathan

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Mina Swaminathan on Gender and Development

 

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Inspiring indian Mina swaminathan

 

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Mina Swaminathan Funeral Service Open Casket

 

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Dr. Soumya Swaminathan recalls growing up as the daughter of famed Indian scientist MS Swaminathan

 

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Chief Scientist at the World Health Organization on her Famous Father | We The Women | Barkha Dutt

Mina Swaminathan is an Indian educationist in the field of pre-school education. As a teacher at St. Thomas’s School, New Delhi, she developed methods using drama in education and language learning, both inside and outside the classroom. In children’s drama, she has developed techniques for creative improvisation, and in writing and production of documentary mime plays. Mina Swaminathan is married to Indian Agricultural Scientist, and "Father of Green Revolution" M.S. Swaminathan, whom she met in 1951 while they were both studying at Cambridge.
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