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3 weeks, 6 days ago

National Milk Day: Date, history and why is it celebrated

National Milk Day is celebrated annually on November 26 in India to honor the significant contributions of milk and the dairy industry to the country's development. National Milk Day celebrates the importance of milk as a vital source of nutrition and its role in the economic growth of rural India. The day highlights the achievements of Dr. Verghese Kurien and …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Letters to The Editor — July 26, 2024

The Hindu

The Budget The Finance Minister may issue rebuttals, but the facts stare at your face. Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, coalition partners of the ruling BJP-led government have got the most allocations. While Bihar received almost ₹59,000 crore, Andhra Pradesh got ₹15,000 crore for developing its capital Amaravati. Kurien As a student in Madras Christian College in the 1970s, I remember …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

Remembering CTK

The Hindu

Kurien, or ‘CTK’ to all those who knew him, is no more. A rare exposure to top-flight academic economics gave him a visible confidence, though Kurien was conspicuously devoid of intellectual arrogance. Detaching himself from the seductions of a life lived in California, a move difficult to imagine for Indians of the present generation, Kurien returned to teach at his …

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6 months ago

A shining star in Kerala’s reading history

New Indian Express

A week later, I digged up a bit more on the newspaper from books on the history of print media in Malayalam. From whatever I could gather, I understood that C J Kurien, a nephew of Kurien Writer, published an English newspaper from Cochin called Western Star, which had been an initiation of his uncle’s, in the 1860’s. A few …

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7 months ago

Cannes 2024: Amul MD on restored ‘Manthan’, India’s first crowdfunded film

The Hindu

On May 17, something remarkable unfolded at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, released 48 years ago, was India’s first crowdfunded film: 5,00,000 farmers donated ₹2 each to bring the project to fruition. His modernising efforts liberated dairy farmers from the clutch of monopolisers, turned India into the world’s leading milk producer and transformed the Anand Milk Union Limited into …

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7 months ago

Shyam Benegal's 'Manthan': Restored version of farmers-funded classic shines at Cannes

Hindustan Times

Cannes, Veteran director Shyam Benegal's "Manthan", a film financed by 5 lakh farmers of Gujarat 48 years ago, made a triumphant return to the spotlight and public consciousness with its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah walked the red carpet at Cannes along with wife Ratna Pathak Shah, late co-star Smita Patil's son Prateik Babbar, Dr …

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7 months ago

'Humara makhan, humara manthan': Amul celebrates Smita Patil's Manthan's Cannes premiere

India TV News

Shyam Benegal's film Manthan was screened at the 77th edition of Cannes Film Festival on Friday evening. Celebrating the achievement of Indian cinema, Amul on Friday shared a stylish doodle on social media featuring Amul girl representing late actor Smita Patil, who is holding a glass of milk in one hand and bread and butter in the other. See the …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Azim Premji’s PremjiInvest bets on AI to prop $10 billion fund

Hindustan Times

PremjiInvest, the largest Indian family office that manages over $10 billion for software tycoon Azim Premji, will invest more money into artificial intelligence companies while fine-tuning its proprietary AI investment tools, a senior executive at the firm said. The company, among the first large Indian asset managers to use AI tools in the private equity space, is now working on …

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10 months ago

50 yrs of a milk revolution that changed Indian cooperative enterprises forever

Hindustan Times

Nilesh Patel, a 35-year-old farmer, stops for a moment to check his phone after selling three cans of milk at the collection centre of Bedwa Milk Producers’ Co-operative Society Ltd in Bedwa village, home to around 6,700 people. This society supplies milk to the district milk union, the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union headquartered in Anand, less than 15km …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Nalla Nilavulla Rathri’ movie review: Murphy Devassy’s directorial debut fails to live up to its interesting premise

The Hindu

June 30, 2023 05:08 pm | Updated 05:08 pm IST All external labels are misleading in Nalla Nilavulla Rathri, starting with its title which conjures up images of a romantic drama. The duo, running an organic farming business with their friends Peter and Rajeev, are taken in by Kurien’s proposals to expand the business to rural Karnataka, but the more …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Does India have room for a dairy behemoth?

Live Mint

New Delhi: On an October morning in 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri, then Prime Minister of India, was engrossed in a conversation. Shastri asked Verghese Kurien, then general manager of the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers’ Union, and the architect of India’s White Revolution, the world’s largest dairy development programme that began in 1970. Successful ones like the Gujarat Cooperative Milk …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Amul needs to remain a revolutionary brand

Live Mint

As brand stories go, Amul’s is remarkable. Mehta is an old hand at Amul, like Sodhi, whose early career was under Verghese Kurien, prime mover of India’s ‘white revolution’. Today, more Indians have a stake in Amul doing even better than just its direct stakeholders—its vast network of dairy farmers, i.e., whose milk it procures at prices it was set …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Need for Indian model of localisation to achieve SDGs 2030: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

The Hindu

NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Suman Bery emphasised the need for the Indian model of localisation to achieve Social Development Goals 2030 set by the United Nations. Mr. Bery said the Indian model of SDG localisation has four pillars: creating institutional ownership, establishing a robust review and monitoring system, developing capacities for integrating SDGs in planning and monitoring and promoting a "whole …

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3 years ago

A white touch to a refreshed green revolution

The Hindu

November 26, 2021 was celebrated in Anand, Gujarat as the 100th birth anniversary of Verghese Kurien, the leader of India’s ‘white revolution’, which increased the incomes and the wealth of millions of cattle-owning small farmers in India, many of them women. November 26, 2021 also marked one year from the day when thousands of crop-growing farmers, who have been the …

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3 years ago

Indian agriculture needs a Verghese Kurien

The Hindu

Many wish for legendary “Milk Man of India” Verghese Kurien ’s presence in our midst today as the conflict between the Central government and the farming community on the issue of the farm laws appears to be still unresolved. Only as a cooperative model Yet, quietly and with self-confidence, Kurien won the farmers over with his professional integrity and his …

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3 years ago

National Milk Day 2021: All you need to know about 'Father of White Revolution’ Dr Verghese Kurien – Firstpost

Firstpost

Kurien was also the brains behind ‘Operation Flood,’ which led dairy farming to become largest self-sustaining industry in the country as well as the largest rural employment sector. The National Milk Day is also observed to mark the birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien who is also known as the ‘Father of White Revolution’ in the country. Here is all …

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3 years ago

National Milk Day 2021: History and significance of day marking birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien

Firstpost

National Milk Day is observed and celebrated to honour Dr Verghese Kurien. Every year on 26 November, National Milk Day is celebrated across the country. Objective of this day: National Milk Day is observed and celebrated to honour Dr Verghese Kurien. History and Significance: Looking at Kurien’s hard work, all the dairy majors of the country along with Indian Dairy …

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3 years, 3 months ago

‘Narcotic Jihad’ Remark Row: BJP Leader Seeks Protection for Kerala Bishop

The Quint

George Kurien, while addressing media persons at Kochi said, "The position taken by the Chief Minister and that of the state opposition leader have given strength to the divisive organisations and for the first time in the history of the state, extremist organisations conducted a march towards the Bishop's House." The senior BJP leader said that the extremists had also …

Kerala Bjp Bishop Seeks Protection

3 years, 3 months ago

India has an edible oil problem, but palm oil won't fix it

Live Mint

M V. Ramoji Rao is a seasoned dentist and a busy one too. About three years ago, many farmers in Rao’s district had uprooted their plantations when the price of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm hovered around ₹8,000 a tonne—less than half of the current market price. Cheap palm oil, nearly all of it imported, accounts for over a …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Poverty has been the dominant theme in my writings says economist C.T. Kurien

The Hindu

Kurien is an economist with a difference. If Nobel laureate Robert Solow said that economics is for the curious and its study should be intellectual fun, for Kurien, the economist’s role is to participate in transforming the economy. The speaker, after a moment of silence, said: “Let’s say, by eating nuts.” And I added: “If there are nuts for survival, …

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3 years, 6 months ago

CIAL offers 1 acre for Silver Line station

The Hindu

Cochin International Airport Limited has offered an acre for the construction of a station for the proposed Silver Line semi-high speed railway proposed by the State government. The airport authority has land holding close to the proposed Silver Line alignment, and the project will provide great connectivity to the airport too, said V.J. Mr. Kurien said rail proximity would complete …

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3 years, 6 months ago

The success story of the world's ninth-largest dairy company, Amul

Op India

The brand Amul, also known as the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, needs no introduction. Amul has a storied history, having been created in 1946 in response to the exploitation of marginal milk producers by traders from Polson dairy, which was then the region’s only dairy. Polson Dairy, a locally-owned dairy in Anand, Gujarat, was procuring milk from farmers at …

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National Milk Day: Date, history and why is it celebrated

Letters to The Editor — July 26, 2024

Remembering CTK

A shining star in Kerala’s reading history

Cannes 2024: Amul MD on restored ‘Manthan’, India’s first crowdfunded film

Shyam Benegal's 'Manthan': Restored version of farmers-funded classic shines at Cannes

'Humara makhan, humara manthan': Amul celebrates Smita Patil's Manthan's Cannes premiere

Azim Premji’s PremjiInvest bets on AI to prop $10 billion fund

50 yrs of a milk revolution that changed Indian cooperative enterprises forever

‘Nalla Nilavulla Rathri’ movie review: Murphy Devassy’s directorial debut fails to live up to its interesting premise

Does India have room for a dairy behemoth?

Amul needs to remain a revolutionary brand

Need for Indian model of localisation to achieve SDGs 2030: NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman

A white touch to a refreshed green revolution

Indian agriculture needs a Verghese Kurien

National Milk Day 2021: All you need to know about 'Father of White Revolution’ Dr Verghese Kurien – Firstpost

National Milk Day 2021: History and significance of day marking birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien

‘Narcotic Jihad’ Remark Row: BJP Leader Seeks Protection for Kerala Bishop

India has an edible oil problem, but palm oil won't fix it

Poverty has been the dominant theme in my writings says economist C.T. Kurien

CIAL offers 1 acre for Silver Line station

The success story of the world's ninth-largest dairy company, Amul