"I don't understand why they don't accredit Hinduja, " said Soumya Swaminathan, director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, part of the government's network of biomedical research institutions.

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S. Swaminathan, adviser to the Indian minister of agriculture.

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Monkombu Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist who worked with Mr Subramaniam, said this week that the politician had helped farmers to achieve in four years as much progress as they had managed in the preceding 4, 000 years.

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