Basiswar Sen

Basiswar Sen was an eminent Indian scientist and agriculturist. He was a pioneer of the Green Revolution movement that changed the food landscape of India by growing abundant food grains, thereby reducing the possibility of any famine in the country. His wife was Gertrude Emerson Sen, an American author and specialist on Asia. He founded the Vivekananda Laboratory in the Almora region of the Himalayas. He was a friend of many luminaries and dignitaries like Indian Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, poet Rabindranath Tagore, Julian Huxley, D.H. Lawrence etc. He was also very closely related to the Ramakrishna Order and the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement. He was intimately associated with Dr. Jagadish Chandra Bose, the noted Indian scientist, and Sister Nivedita, the great writer, orator and freedom fighter and direct disciple of Swami Vivekananda. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1957.

Basiswar was born in Bishnupur area in Bengal in 1887. His father's name was Rameshwar Sen, who was the first graduate of Calcutta University from Bankura district of Bengal. His mother's name was Prasannamoyi Devi. His elder brother Sureshwar Sen was an ardent devotee of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi. Owing to the untimely death of Rameshwar, the Sen family was in financial strain. Basiswar or Boshi as he came to be known in his later life, completed his school education by staying with a sister in Ranchi. He passed the BSc examination from St. Xavier's College in Calcutta. He was introduced to Ramakrishna Order by his friend Bibhuti Bhushon Ghosh. He was intimately associated with Swami Sadananda, also called Gupta Maharaj, a direct monastic disciple of Swami Vivekananda.

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