Welcome to Vrikshamandir. A small garden of memories, essays, poems and stories, tended by a novice blogger and shared by friends.
वृक्षमंदिर में आपका स्वागत है। यादों, लेखों, कविताओं और कहानियों की एक छोटी-सी बगिया, एक नौसिखिए ब्लॉगर और उसके साथियों की।
समतामूलक (Equitable) समाज का अभिप्राय मेरी समझ से ऐसे आदर्श समाज से है जिसके मूल मे समता हो। दूसरे शब्दों मे ऐसा समाज जिसका अंतर्निहित मूल्य समता हो । समता (equity) और समानता (equality) को लेकर काफ़ी भ्रम है । किसी ने कहा है “Equality is impossible, Equity is possible”! मानव समाज मे सभी एक…
I write this on the morning of Christmas Day of 2019 from Toronto. My 6 year old granddaughter gave me a beautiful card with a message that she wrote for me. Unlike her I wrote to my great grand father but since he didn’t know how to read or write I wrote to my grand…
Michael Halse: My Guru by RK Nagar RK Nagar pays tributes to his Guru …Dr Michael Halse…It is a long piece but worth a read particularly for those who wish to know more about the unsung heroes who under Dr Kurien’s leadership made the “White Revolution “ a reality in India. Mike was a born…
Emerging Issues on Meat Sector as : Human Foods of Animal Orgin , Food Saftey and Food Security , in India. I , recently , happened to read the learned treatise on these and allied subjects by Prof.Dr.John Abraham , on face book. First of all I thank him for the mass of information on…
Retrospect WordPress is very kind ! I mean it. True, I had to pay for the premium plan that I took on WordPress but that was my choice. I could have chosen an option and start writing without paying a dime! In retrospect it was a good decision. My wife asked me “How much did…
Michael Halse became a member of the founding board of National Dairy Development Board from 1965 1968. He was FAO advisor NDDB from 1968 till 1983. When Operation Flood I was launched in 1970 he was appointed as the Team Leader of FAO experts assigned to NDDB. He helped conceptualise and set up the Management…
When I joined NDDB in 1968 our office was in two story two bed room on each floor flat adjacent to Amul Dairy with a common boundary. This is the first office building of NDDB. In 1968 this is where I started my professional career. Dr. RP Aneja, Shri PV Mathew and Shailendra in front…
The question is why we write what we write? Well, first of all one must know how to write only then one can think of writing what to write. Speaking comes easily, particularly , speaking for daily usage. Speaking to others known or unknown and in front of others is a different matter. Public speaking…
Memorabilia Dr. MPG Kurup ( Executive Director – Retd. NDDB) wrote for the souvenir of annual get together of his Batch in the Kerala Veterinary College. 2009
Moving from Kerala to Anand Gujarat enabled Dr. Kurup serve the farmers not only in all parts of India but in countries across the world.
सनीचर के चबूतरे से सनीचर का परिचय उन्हीं के शब्दों में This space is for musings from Saneechar a character from Hindi satire novel “Raag Darbari” by Shrilal Shukla. Raag Darbari is available in English translation also. I first met Saneechar on Twitter. We used to exchange messages . After some months or may…
Empowering Farmers through Value Chain Institutions:Operation Flood -The Example RK Nagar worked with the National Dairy Development Board of India from 1969 to 1998 as a part of the senior management team in project planning, project management and operations of commodity business. He is currently a free lance Management Consultant, Value Chain Design and Development…
