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S. Sambandamurthi, the well-known horticulturist, is a nonagenarian and belongs to the proud Silent Generation. Born in 1936 in Ponparappi, a small village in Ariyalur district, into a farming family, he studied Agriculture at the degree level and then specialized in Horticulture at the postgraduate level. He completed his Ph.D. with research on mutation breeding in tuberose. He joined the Tamil Nadu Government service in the Department of Agriculture and served for fourteen years as a research worker in different research stations, gaining experience in the production of tropical, subtropical, and temperate crops including fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, and plantation crops. Later, he joined Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, where he continued research activities in horticultural crops in addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and guiding Ph.D. scholars. He was deputed to Germany for 16 months for training in fruit production and to England for eight months to study agricultural education programmes offered to students below university level. He also visited several other countries, including Australia, Israel, France, Holland, the U.S.A., and China, gaining international exposure in horticultural crop production. He played an important role in establishing the first Krishi Vigyan Kendra in India at Pondicherry. He began his official career as a Research Assistant and retired as Dean of the Faculty of Horticulture, TNAU, Coimbatore, after 38 years of service. He served as an active member of 12 high-level committees of the Governments of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry and formulated programmes for the development of horticulture. The biggest rose garden in India, with more than 1,000 named varieties, was laid out by him in Ooty. Two separate departments for Floriculture and Medicinal Plants were started by him at TNAU. He was instrumental in upgrading the Horticulture Research Station, Periyakulam, into the Horticulture College and Research Institute. He evolved the famous PKM.1 variety of moringa, which revolutionized moringa production in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and a few other states, and also evolved the PKM.1 tamarind variety, which bears fruit within two years. He has authored ten books in Tamil and one book in English on lifestyle improvement, health, and nutrition, and has published over 100 scientific articles on different horticultural crops.

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Although the author is a specialist in the field of horticulture, he has established himself as a generalist through this book by discreetly discussing the various dimensions of life and the factors influencing human behaviour. The topics explored are seemingly random and cover most aspects of present-day human lifestyle. Important life- changing factors have been highlighted under 40 different headings. The projections may appear strange at first glance, but

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<p class="MsoNormal" xss=removed>S. Sambandamurthi, the well-known horticulturist, is a nonagenarian and belongs to the proud Silent Generation. Born in 1936 in Ponparappi, a small village in Ariyalur district, into a farming family, he studied Agriculture at the degree level and then specialized in Horticulture at the postgraduate level. He completed his Ph.D. with research on mutation breeding in tuberose. He joined the Tamil Nadu Government service in the Department of Agriculture and served for fourteen years as a research worker in different research stations, gaining experience in the production of tropical, subtropical, and temperate crops including fruits, vegetables, flowers, spices, and plantation crops. Later, he joined Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, where he continued research activities in horticultural crops in addition to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students and guiding Ph.D. scholars. He was deputed to Germany for 16 months for training in fruit production and to England for eight months to study agricultural education programmes offered to students below university level. He also visited several other countries, including Australia, Israel, France, Holland, the U.S.A., and China, gaining international exposure in horticultural crop production. He played an important role in establishing the first Krishi Vigyan Kendra in India at Pondicherry. He began his official career as a Research Assistant and retired as Dean of the Faculty of Horticulture, TNAU, Coimbatore, after 38 years of service. He served as an active member of 12 high-level committees of the Governments of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry and formulated programmes for the development of horticulture. The biggest rose garden in India, with more than 1,000 named varieties, was laid out by him in Ooty. Two separate departments for Floriculture and Medicinal Plants were started by him at TNAU. He was instrumental in upgrading the Horticulture Research Station, Periyakulam, into the Horticulture College and Research Institute. He evolved the famous PKM.1 variety of moringa, which revolutionized moringa production in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and a few other states, and also evolved the PKM.1 tamarind variety, which bears fruit within two years. He has authored ten books in Tamil and one book in English on lifestyle improvement, health, and nutrition, and has published over 100 scientific articles on different horticultural crops.</p>

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