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Tribute to Dr. Verghese Kurien, Last of India’s Nation Builders

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 09, 20123 mins

[ Amul’s Tribute (of course) I spent the better part of my Sunday time skimming through tribute messages on Twitter, Facebook shares and reading what the mainstream media had to write about Dr…

When Margaret Alva called Verghese Kurien an MCP

Vishy KurugantiJune 27, 20122 mins

[Editor’s Note: In Verghese Kurien’s autobiography (I too had a dream), he recounts his first encounter with Margaret Alva in 1984, when she accompanied the Queen of Netherlands. The Queen wished to…

Why Lal Bahadur Shastri wanted to spend a night in a Kaira district village

Vishy KurugantiDecember 19, 20112 mins

This story (from Verghese Kurien’s I too had a dream) continues from When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village..unannounced..in 1964. He visited the huts of Harijans in the village. He…

When an Indian Prime Minister spent a night in a village.. unannounced.. in 1964

Vishy KurugantiSeptember 29, 20114 mins

There’s no better way to relate this story than to transcribe the relevant pages from Verghese Kurian’s I too had a dream. In 1964 the Kaira Union’s new cattle-feed compounding factory sponsored by…

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