A developing story unfolds through correspondence between two individuals who have yet to meet face to face and live over 12,480 kilometers apart. Like any story, this one also has a beginning. However, both the writers and the story itself are still searching for closure and longing for an end. Dear reader, could you lend…
Rashmi Kant Nagar I vaguely recall that it was month of July, 1982. V S Behla, who was Director, Engineering at that time and I were heading home after office. As we had moved just a few steps out of the main office building, a white premier car suddenly stoped in front of us and…
Manthan “Mathan” the celebrated Hindi feature film directed by Shyam Benegal and produced by the Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation Limited was released before I joined the Chairman’s Office in NDDB. Dr Kurien wanted to have the first show of Manthan in Anand and invite a select audience from various milk unions of Gujarat, Gujarat Cooperative…
एक मित्र ने हाल ही में अपनी फेसबुक टाइमलाइन पर लिखा: “भारत में पारंपरिक संयुक्त परिवार प्रणाली को तेजी से एकल परिवार द्वारा प्रतिस्थापित किया जा रहा है। अंतरजातीय और अंतरधार्मिक विवाहों को अस्वीकार किया जा रहा है; सांप्रदायिक झगड़े उग्र होते जा रहे हैं. इस पृष्ठभूमि में, ‘वसुदैव कुटुंबकम‘ की महान भावना को भारत…
A friend recently wrote on his Facebook timeline: “The traditional joint family system in India is fast being replaced by that of the nuclear family. Inter-caste and inter-religious marriages are being spurned; communal strife is becoming rampant. Against this backdrop, the noble sentiment of ‘Vasudaiva Kutumbakam’ is being waved around or advertised as India’s characteristic….
This performance of Nasadiya Sukta at Times Square today reminded me of the days of Bharat Ek Khoj! I remember our first color TV, Shyam Benegal and his team, Manthan, and so many other incidents and movies. During my Anand days, I was privileged to have met Shri Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, and many others…
This Facebook post reveals a lot. Click on the link and watch the video clip, which is part of a podcast. In this podcast, Shri Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Pakistani Nuclear Physicist and a well-known researcher and educator, talks about DNA. In the Pakistani context, he mentions that those who call themselves Syeds and trace their…
यह फेसबुक पोस्ट बहुत कुछ कह जाती है । इस लिंक पर क्लिक करें और वीडियो क्लिप देखें, जो एक पॉडकास्ट का हिस्सा है। इस पॉडकास्ट में, पाकिस्तानी परमाणु भौतिक विज्ञानी,प्रसिद्ध शोधकर्ता और शिक्षक श्री परवेज़ हुदाभाई डीएनए के बारे में बात करते समय पाकिस्तानी संदर्भ में उल्लेख कर रहे हैं कि जो लोग खुद…
Dr. Chiranjeev Kohli Dr Kohli is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and holds a PhD from Indiana University. He is currently a professor of Marketing at California State University, Fullerton, where he has been teaching since 1992. Besides his academic pursuits and teaching, he loves…
We were in Vancouver from July 7th to 16th, 2023. The occasion was a sort of reunion of three families: the Anejas, Behlas, and mine. The three of us first met at Anand in the late sixties where we worked for many years with the then nascent National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) of India. Virindra…
Extension of NDDB Projects to areas other than milk Nearly two hundred Former employees of NDDB, some of them with their spouses, gathered for a meeting on 21 and 22 January at NDDB, Anand. It was the third meeting of its kind, following previous meetings in 2015 and 2020. The two-day meeting had four structured…
