I met Prof. Arvind Gupta first while I was with the National Dairy Development Board(NDDB). His wife Neela too was an employee at the NDDB. We became colleagues, neighbours and close friends for over four decades.
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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 । […]
पढ़ाई; गाँव, नई दिल्ली और फिर गोरखपुर ! ठीक से याद नहीं पर बात पिछली सदी के सन छप्पन या सत्तावन की है। मेरे गाँव में पहला स्कूल मिठउआ आम के नीचे शुरू हुआ था। मै पाँचवीं उसी स्कूल से पास हुआ था। बाबूजी तब तक उत्तर प्रदेश सरकार की कृषि विभाग की सेवा से […]
I have known the gentleman since I was 6, he is 89 years young now and bubbling with life. We were neighbours aeons ago, his daughter a school friend. I met him after almost 30 years. His home is just the same as I must have seen it decades ago, impeccably maintained, with the same […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Formation of NDDB Struggles and Achievements 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 […]
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 […]
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Luxury Living in Amul Dairy Campus My first “home” in Anand in May – July 1968 was a room in the bungalow of Prof Michael Halse in the Amul Campus opposite Dr Kuriens’s House (Amul 1). I had a fully furnished air-conditioned room with an attached bath full of shelves filled with books. Yes, I […]