RK Nagar accompanied by Dr RP Aneja visited Tamilnadu in late seventies. They met the legendary Mr. TN Sheshan who was then Agriculture Production Commissioner, Tamilnadu. The purpose of the meeting was to plan for Operation Flood II in Tamilnadu. Nagar has written about this meeting with Mr. TN Sheshan . RK Nagar now narrates…
A thought provocative article as usual from from Harish Damodaran. Harish Damodaran is known for his writings on Indian Agriculture. The proposed reforms in Agriculture sector are no doubt praise worthy. However, now that these these long awaited steps have been taken, will the politics of our land make it happen? We live in times…
“Give instructions you can yourself execute. In case your junior says he can’t, you should be able to tell him to step aside and do it yourself” – V Kurien Dr. Milton Obote was scheduled to visit NDDB at around 3.00 pm that day. As per the protocol that all of us in NDDB were…
I was NDDB, State Director for Maharashtra during 2000-2003. In the year 2002, we received a message that Dr. Kurien would visit to Pune to receive “Lokmanya TilakAward” constituted by Lokmanya Tilak Trust, at Tilak Smarak Bhavan, Pune. The entire staff comprising ten NDDB Officers was asked to attend the ceremony. The Tilak SmarakBhavan in…
We used to handle Dr. Kurien’s domestic air bookings from Vadodara in coordination with the Chairman’s Office during the days when I was with Sugam Dairy. My colleagues and i often went to the airport to hand over Boarding Passes to Dr V Kurien which the Indian Airlines staff gave to us on special request….
Names of three organisations (Polson, Amul and Aarey Milk Colony), two cities ( Bombay and Anand) , and three individuals (Shri Tribhuvandas Patel, Dr V Kurien and Shri DN Khurody) always find a place in any narrative on early history of dairy development in India. Maharashtra and Gujarat were part of Bombay state till reorganisation…
कोरोनोपरांत किम ? एको अहं, द्वितीयो नास्ति, न भूतो न भविष्यति की अनुभूति, कहा गया है आध्यात्मिकता और ध्यान के उच्च स्तर पर ही शायद संभव है । एको अहं की स्थिति हम साधारण मानवों को कहाँ नसीब ।हममे से बहुतायत तो परिवार और समाज से अभिन्न जीवन की कल्पना नहीं कर सकते । कोरोना…
I was deputed to meet Dr Kurien on arrival at Pune airport in 1992. He came to Pune to deliver Kale Memorial Lecture at the invitation of the Gokhle Institute of Politics and Economics. One reason probably was that Dr. Kurien did not like a NDDB officer to come to airport to receive him. However,…
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…
