Vrikshamandir
By Dr DC Sah* I am concerned with the way the economy is unfolding in the last couple of months. Did I say months ? I mean in the last 73 years. The economic thinking, to put mildly, is in a confused state. It has neither been pro-workers, nor pro-capital. As a result, we never […]
During Operation Flood – I programme, Shri. Vasantdada Patil was the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The first meeting to discuss Operation Flood was held in 1971 at Mantralaya, Mumbai in a large meeting hall. There were around twenty five officers from different departments of Government of including the dairy development present at the meeting. The […]
From my village to Anand I met Dr. V. Kurien in November, 1967 for the first time, thanks to Prof VK Gupta and Dr. Michael Halse (Mike) who were both then working at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad ( IIMA). I had known uncle Gupta as he and my father were friends and both […]
Reproducing an article that appeared in Outlook magazine in 2018* Were he still with us, Dr. V. Kurien would have turned 97 this month*. It is apt that his birth date, November 26th, is celebrated as National Milk Day. Dr. Kurien was the sole individual who, in the 1940s, recognized India’s potential for milk production […]
I come from a family of teachers. I deliberately chose a non teaching profession but education always remained close to my heart, especially at school level. There are two strong reasons for it. One, my father spent his entire life starting new schools in what was Mewar region of Rajasthan and two, he rightly believed […]
Dr. V. Kurien, was known to be a very strict disciplinarian but the incidence described below brings out the humane side of his persona. I was posted at NDDB, Mumbai during the period 1987 up to 1997. While in Mumbai, Dr. Kurien would always stay at NDDB penthouse on 10th floor of NDDB residential building […]
Shathe Shathyam Samacharet If the situation demanded autocracy, I gave it autocracy.”―Dr. Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream Producer owned organizations are democratic organizations. Anand Pattern Dairy Cooperative structure is also a democratic structure and can be defined ‘as an organization of the milk producers, by the milk producers and for the milk producers. […]
बात नब्बे के दशक के उन बीते दिनों की जब मैंने अपनी “पहली” सेवा निवृत्ति नहीं ली थी। बात तब की है जब मैं आणंद, गुजरात मे एनडीडीबी में कार्य करता था। काम के सिलसिले में दिल्ली आना हुआ था आणंद से । बाबूजी अम्मा और नीलम दिल्ली में रहते थे। शनिवार का दिन था […]
दूर दूर तक नज़र दौड़ायें, हमारे जीवन का केंद्र लोहा है, अगर लोहा ना होता, तो हमारे जीवन का केंद्र क्या होता? अगर लोहा ना होता, तो प्रारम्भिक औज़ार नहीं बनते, औज़ार नहीं बनते तो ना खेती होती, ना ही खदान होते। खदान ना होते, तो दूसरे मूल्यवान खनिज ना होते, मूल्यवान खनिज ना होते, […]
I joined National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) at Anand in the late nineties. I had spent about a year in the organisation and was still struggling and felt somewhat perplexed trying to adjust in the new working atmosphere. In NDDB , the work culture was very different from that of a Central Government Offices from […]
डाक्टर सक्कल प्रसाद भारती के कोरोनोपरांत प्रसारित होने वाले टेलीवाइज्ड साक्षात्कार का ध्वनि मुद्रण दिगदिगंत ओझा- नमस्कार डाक्टर सक्कल नेशन वांटेड टू नो पर आपका स्वागत है ! डाक्टर सक्कल – नमस्कार, नमस्कार भला हो ज़ूम का अब हम साक्षात आप के सम्मुख आप के टीवी पैनल पर उपस्थित है। कहिये आप हमारा साक्षात्कार आख़िर […]
जैसा कि हम कोरोना टाइम्स के दूसरे अंक में बता चुके हैं -अगर आपने ध्यान दे कर पढ़ा हो तो- रौरव जी के नेशन वांटस टू नो के मुख्य संवाददाता दिगदिगंत जी डाक्टर सक्कल प्रसाद भारती का इंटरव्यू लेने के लिये तैयार हो गये थे। लगा तो यह था कि संवाददाता महोदय केवल उत्सुक हैं […]