Dr P Balaram, Former Director, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, today exhorted graduates to learn lesson from failure which was part of research and they should be resilient to confront failures.
In countries like India, level of resilience needed was still higher due to social and political intervention, Balaram said in his address to the 35th convocation of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University here.
Research aspirants should crawl in the thorny pathways to wisdom with conviction and confidence to bring transformation in the level of farmers, the backbone of Indian economy, he said.
Tamil Nadu agriculture minister, Agri S S Krishnamoorthy announced the endowment.
Dr Robert S Zigler, Director General, International Rice Research Institute, Philippines and Dr C Adhinarayana Reddy, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State Univeersity, USA were conferred with Doctor of Sciences, Honoris Causa at the convocation.
The Tamil Nadu Governor, in his capacity as Chancellor, awarded degrees to 1,521 undergraduates, post graduates and research scholars.
