Vrikshamandir
In the internet era, TRP (Television Rating Points) can make people do just about anything 😂. Here in the Indian subcontinent—our beloved Hindustan—internet access is easy and dirt cheap. The TRP game runs on a massive scale. You won’t find many eager to toil in the fields, but there’s an abundance of folks dreaming of […]
In August 2022, Dr. Mukund Naware sent me a message informing me that Rajeev Deshmukh, who had worked with the Farmers Organization and Animal Husbandry (FO and AH) Division of the National Dairy Development Board would be visiting Toronto and would like to meet me. Dr Naware and I had a telephone call after that. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dairying in India before NDDB 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 sessions; Introduction, Dairying in […]
On January 21 and 22, 2023, nearly 200 former employees of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and their spouses met in the Tribhuvan Das Auditorium at NDDB, Anand, to celebrate their association with the organisation and the years and years of work life they spent together at the NDDB in Anand. I had earlier […]
रश्मि कांत नागर गाय, गोबर और “गोल्ड” एक जून को शैलेंद्र ने एक वीडियो साझा किया। इस वीडियो में एक वैज्ञानिक डॉ सत्य प्रकाश वर्मा गाय/ भैंस के गोबर से प्राप्त उन दो उत्पादों के बारे में (२४-२८ मई के दौरान राजकोट हुए किसी मेले में) जानकारी दे रहे है, जिसमे एक किलो गोबर से […]