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Moving Fingers still write; Christmas 2019 (Revised March, 2022)
Reproducing a slightly edited version of a blog I wrote in December 2019. Vrikshamandir first appeared online in November 2019. That was a time when I was going through a rough patch. I was healthy, yet there was something amiss. Vrikshamandir was an idea and with the help of friends and former colleagues, I was…
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On the proposed amendments to the NDDB act; A view point
The Government’s recent move to amend the NDDB act 37 of 1987 has drawn a lot of attention. In this article, I have attempted to analyse how the proposed amendments can be more effective by restructuring NDDB in the larger interest of the entire agricultural sector, including the dairy sector. In the last few days,…
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LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP
This is a photograph clicked by Meera Singh my granddaughter. She took this photo was taken on 9 January 2021. The credit for ensuring that the book “Utterly Butterly Milkman” is published on time for release at the 100th birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien goes to Nirmala Kurien. Some of us “ancient former NDDB…
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Vrikshamandir is your tonic !
I have not been active on Vrikshamandir for some time. I have not been keeping well. It all started in mid November. One thing led to another. I sent a letter to some friends about my current health condition and also shared a link to a story which I read yesterday and liked most. I…
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Vinod Huria Writes on amendment to NDDB Act; Another view point
All along we have subscribed to the notion, and Dr Kurien was very firm on this, that the job of the Government is governance and not business. We at the NDDB, promoted the cooperative sector as a form of managing business, where the ownership of the enterprise, vested with the major stakeholders (farmer producers). Although,…
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One winter morning in Anand
The year 1991. I was still nine years away from leaving the National Dairy Development Board. I had always thought that God willing I will retire and live in Anand till I breathe my last and be taken to Kailash Bhoomi for cremation. I had my former colleagues and friends in the great City, the…
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अपूर्व सुंदरी
एगो कहानी सुनाते हैं, बात तब की है जब हम ओरिजनल काशी वासी थे। एक इंटरव्यू देने गये थे दिल्ली CSIR में, Senior Research Fellow का । ससुरा बोर्डे में मार कर दिए, वो इसलिए कि एगो वैज्ञानिक महोदय जो इंटरव्यू ले रहे थे उन्होंने ये कह दिया की लेड को प्लंबम नहीं कहते हैं…
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अपने
अपने होते कौन है ? कहा जायेगा वह जो हमें अपनायें और जिन्हे हम अपनायें वह हैं अपने। अपनाना क्या है ? हम उन्हीं को अपनाते हैं जिनसे संबंध बन जाये और बने रहें । चाहे घर परिवार के सदस्य, मित्र, अकिंचन अहेतुक जीवन यात्रा में मिल कर साथ चलने फिर भले ही बिछड़ जाने…
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Kurienomania
Rajesh Nair started teaching at IRMA in 1999 and I left NDDB in 2000. We never met. Thanks to Facebook we connected. I have great pleasure in posting, with his permission, three reminiscences that he wrote about Dr V Kurien. 26 November 2020 The board room of IRMA’s ETDC was cram-full that morning. Two management…
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अजब ग़ज़ब दुनिया आफिस और आफिस के बाबुओं की
आपने लाख दक्षिण के मंदिर और उत्तर की देव प्रतिमाएं देख डाली हो; हज़ार महलों, मकबरों, मीनारों और अजायबघरों के चक्कर काटे हों, या मुंबई की चौपाटी; दिल्ली के चाँदनी चौक या आगरे के ताजमहल को देखा हो; लेकिन अगर आपने एक बार भी दफ्तर की दुनिया की सैर नहीं की तो समझिये कि आपका…
