Talent vs. Pay. Deserving vs. Non-Deserving. Achieving vs. Failing. We love to debate these things as if success is a neat formula of hard work plus skill. But a couple of real incidents from my early career still make me laugh — because they showed me that even the greatest leaders know the truth: most…
यह ब्लॉग वसंतराव कुलकर्णी की जीवन यात्रा का भावुक वर्णन है, जिनका नाम ‘वसंत’ उनके कार्य से मेल खाता था। वे जहां-जहां गए, हरियाली फैलाई—पेड़ लगाए, बगीचे संवारे। लेखक की उनसे पहली मुलाकात 1969 में मुंबई की आरे कॉलोनी में हुई, फिर 1972 में आनंद के एनडीडीबी में, 1984 में मुंबई के डेयरी बोर्ड कैंपस में, 1997 में जलगांव डेयरी में और अंतिम 2006 के बाद बोरीवली के ज्येष्ठ नागरिक संघ में। वसंतराव ने डेयरी संस्थानों को हरा-भरा बनाया, सेवानिवृत्ति के बाद एजेंसी चलाई और चुनौतियां स्वीकारीं। वे लेखक के जीवन में वृक्ष की छाया जैसे रहे—एक अनोखा संयोग और प्रेरणा।
The blog chronicles Dr. Verghese Kurien’s efforts to expand Operation Flood in Maharashtra amid bureaucratic opposition.
A story related to the world known scientist Newton goes like this. While working in his laboratory during nights he often used to be disturbed by mother cat and her offspring as they scratched the door from outside to allow them entry. So he called a carpenter and asked him to saw two holes in…
R K Nagar Former General Manager National Dairy Development Board Completion of OF-I took nearly ten years against planned 7 (including 2 pre-project years). There were too many unknowns that needed to be dealt with. Midway through the project, for example an action item- ‘Resettlement of city kept cattle’ had to be dropped and funds…
R K Nagar, Former General Manager National Dairy Development Board India has continued to be the world’s largest milk producer since 1996. It is no mean achievement considering how disorganised Indian dairying was in the 1960s. A turnaround of this magnitude, in an extremely challenging environment can be attributed solely to an exemplary farsighted leadership…
Historian R.G Collingwood once stated, “The ultimate aim of history is human self-knowledge. The value of history is that it teaches us what man has done, thus what man is.” Understanding our past is essential to grasping our present. The history of dairying in India stretches back millennia, but its modern evolution is closely tied…
Approximately 3.8 billion years ago, life made its grand entrance on Earth, marking the beginning of a remarkable journey. This momentous occasion occurred a staggering 0.7 billion years after the formation of our planet. From that point on, life has flourished and evolved, shaping the very fabric of our world. No doubt the life of…
श्री प्रवीण पटेल का यह गुजराती लेख मुझे उनके फ़ेसबुक पेज पर पढ़ने को मिला। प्रवीण भाई एशिया भूमंडल की सबसे बड़ी और अमूल पद्धति पर चल रही बनासकांठा सहकारी दूध उत्पादक संघ में असिस्टेंट जनरल मैनेजर ( प्राजेक्टस) के पद पर कार्यरत हैं। बनासकांठा सहकारी दूध उत्पादक संघ “अमूल” परिवार का भाग है ।…
Dr TP Benjamin MVSc, Fellow IIMA , Bengaluru, a former colleague at NDDB and IRMA and a dear friend sent a whatsapp forward about a speech that Dr Kurien delivered as Chief Guest at IIM Ahmedabad at 23 Convocation of the institute in 1988. Text of the WhatsApp forward is given at the end of…
Thank you Dr Joshi for your kinds words about Vrikshamandir. I had written a blog in 2020 titled “Why Vrikshamandir”? I quote below the last paragraph of that blog. One can read the full text by clicking this link “Why Vrikshamandir” “I decided to launch this website and post blogs documenting life experiences, incidents, and…
M M Patel During the initial years of the Operation Flood Project, NDDB organized important activities such as Farmer’s Induction Programs for farmers and Training cum Orientation Programs for newly recruited personnel of various milk unions. I had the opportunity to work on both. From 1977 to 1978, I was posted at the NDDB head…
