भैंस कि गाय कि भैंस ? यह घटना इसी वर्ष के सितंबर महीने की है। घर में एक युवक मेहमान दो दिनों के लिए आया था। उसका नाम अजय है। वह कई वर्षों बाद हमारे यहां आया था, विषयों पर गपशप चल रही थी और फिर चूँकि मै डेयरीवाला हूँ , उसने आखिरकार मुझसे दूध […]
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एक सत्य कथा
मैंने “महादेव दा का राजनैतिक वध” अपने मित्र श्री मनीष भारतीय के फेसबुक पेज पर पढ़ा था। ऐसी घटनाएं सच जैसी लगती हैं, लेकिन जब तक खुद अनुभव न करें, तो कभी कभी अविश्वसनीय सी भी लगती हैं। मन में सवाल उठता है “क्या सच में ऐसा होता है?” धन्यवाद मनीष का, जिन्हें यह कहानी […]
The former employees of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) organised their first reunion in 2015, the second in 2020, and the third in 2023. I attended all three. They are meeting again—the fourth reunion is scheduled for 7–8 February 2025. When I mentioned it to an old friend the other day, neither of us […]
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Arvind Swaminathan
Arvind came from a family that belonged to the kind of history you read about in old books. His father, Mr. T. Swaminathan, had been an ICS officer and later rose to serve as Cabinet Secretary and Chief Election Commissioner. His elder brother ran things at Humphreys and Glasgow, a British multinational, married with children. […]
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India Dairy Stories -3
The Third Chapter in Dr. Mukund Naware’s Three-Part Blog Series The year 2025 is now underway, and this is a story from the month of September. A young man had come to the house as a guest for two days. His name was Ajay. Since he had come after many years, conversations were flowing on […]
For Hindi translation of this blog click here ——————————————————————————————————————— This story takes us back to the early 1980s, a time when the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) had not yet revolutionized India’s edible oil market with its “Dhara” brand, nor had the Indian government approved NDDB’s Market Intervention Operation (MIO). During this period, the Indian […]
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Story of Lemon seeds
A story related to the world known scientist Newton goes like this. While working in his laboratory during nights he often used to be disturbed by mother cat and her offspring as they scratched the door from outside to allow them entry. So he called a carpenter and asked him to saw two holes in […]
In my tribute to Dr. Michael Halse, that I posted under the title “ Michael Halse:My Guru”, I have mentioned about an exercise that we, the original team of the Management and Manpower Development (MMD) division did to churn out two basic documents on Operation Flood titled White Book Section-I and White […]
बात है सन 1980 के दशक के पूर्वार्ध, तब की जब न तो , नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट बोर्ड (एनडीडीबी) की “धारा” ब्रांड से भारत के खाद्य तेल बाजार में क्रांति आई थी, न भारत सरकार द्वारा अनुमोदित एनडीडीबी का एमआईओ (Market intervention Operation) शुरू हुआ था और इंडियन डेयरी कार्पोरेशन(IDC) और एनडीडीबी (नेशनल डेयरी डेवलपमेंट […]
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Sincerity always bears fruit. This is the story of my transformation, a testament to the power of resilience and a reminder that sometimes, the toughest decisions lead to the most rewarding journeys.