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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.〔Boshi Sen—Scientist and Karmayogi, by Hironmoy Mukherjee, Bulletin 2009, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture〕 The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of Padma Bhushan in 1957. ==Early life== 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.〔(RKM Joyrambati )〕 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. Boshi also took a few photographs of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi. At this time he also came in contact with Sister Nivedita who introduced him to Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, the famous Indian scientist, biologist and botanist. Boshi worked with Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose for several years in Bose Institute and even accompanied him to London. In 1923 he travelled to United States on invitation of an American scientist Glen Overton. After his return to India Boshi wanted to do independent research and he parted from Dr. J.C Bose and founded his own laboratory in a small kitchen in Bosepara Lane, Baghbazar, where he was staying. The laboratory was named after Swami Vivekananda. Boshi met Romain Rolland in 1928 and had a discussion on the lives of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda with him. He met Einstein in 1930 in Berlin and had discussions on Science and Religion.〔 〔Prophets of New India, by Romain Rolland, page 453〕 In 1924 Sister Christine or Christine Greenstidel a direct American disciple of Swami Vivekananda had come down to India and took up her accommodation with Boshi. Boshi relocated to Almora where he set up his laboratory in Kundan House, rented with the money of Josephine MacLeod, and Sister Christine stayed there with him for two years. In 1928 Boshi accompanied Sister Christine to New York to help her recover from a failing health, where she breathed her last.〔(Sri Sarada Society Notes, Sprint 2008 )〕 In Almora Boshi met Gertrude Emerson Sen, an explorer, writer and founding member of Society of Women Geographers.〔(Extract from Girish Mehra's Nearer Heaven than Earth )〕 She was a graduate of Chicago University, a fellow of Royal Geographical Society and also editor of the Asia Magazine. In 1932 Boshi and Gertrude were married to each other. They had many diginataries as their acquaintances in Kundan House, the most notable among them being Rabindranath Tagore, the mystic poet and noble laureate, Jawaharlal Nehru, Julian Huxley, note danceuse Uday Shankar, Swami Virajananda, the then head of Ramakrishna Order, Carl Jung etc.〔(Two Almora Lives )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basiswar Sen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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