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I too had a dream by Verghese Kurien

I too had a dream by Verghese Kurien

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This powerful memoir chronicles Kurien’s journey from a physics graduate in Calicut to the visionary architect of India’s White Revolution. After earning an engineering scholarship, he was directed to Anand, Gujarat, where he joined a small dairy cooperative—Amul—and over decades built it into a farmer-owned powerhouse.

  • Early challenges: Faced resistance from entrenched middlemen, bureaucrats, and MNCs while setting up cold chains and buffalo-milk powder facilities .

  • Operation Flood: As chairman of the National Dairy Development Board, Kurien launched this landmark project in 1970, turning India from a milk-deficit nation into the world’s largest producer—transforming rural incomes, empowering women, and dismantling caste barriers.

  • Institution building: Beyond Amul, he founded IRMA (Institute of Rural Management Anand) and replicated the cooperative model nationally—including ventures in edible oils and vegetables .

  • Integrity & leadership: Kurien’s memoir highlights his relentless integrity—describing himself as an “employee of the farmers”—his willingness to confront powerful adversaries, and his refusal to abandon Anand despite personal losses .

The book is rich with anecdotes about negotiating with prime ministers, navigating bureaucracy, and sustaining moral commitment within mass development projects, making for both a heartfelt and strategic account.

About the Author

  • Born in Kozhikode (Kerala), Kurien earned physics and engineering degrees from the University of Madras and Michigan State University and began his career at a government dairy plant in Anand .

  • Over six decades, he spearheaded Amul’s rise, co-founded the NDDB in 1965, led Operation Flood, and positioned India as the world’s top milk producer by the late 1990s .

  • Honored with the Ramon Magsaysay Award (1963), World Food Prize (1989), and India’s Padma Shri, Bhushan, and Vibhushan, he was universally known as the “Milkman of India”.

  • Kurien established IRMA in 1979 and remained a staunch advocate for cooperative-driven rural development until his passing in 2012

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