Book Review [47] : I too had a dream

'I too had a dream' is a great autobiography of a great man, Dr. Verghese Kurien. He lived an incredible life and along with Dr. M S Swaminathan made India a country with food and milk surplus. The country that used to import milk powder became the largest producer of milk in the world and this was made possible by the Milkman of India, Dr. Kurien. This great man was born in 1921 in Kerala in Syrian Christian Family and was nephew of John Mathai (He was the first Finance Minister of India), he had a brilliant academic record (that can shame perhaps all the IITians) but still he devoted his superb talent in the service of dairy farmers of Anand and India. He built an ultra modern dairy in Anand in 1957 that could make milk powder from buffalo milk (at that time almost all dairy experts said that its impossible). He made AMUL as the world finest edible product brand and later fathered White Revolution (1965 onwards). He had to fight politicians, bureaucrats, MNCs but he succeeded in all these and established world class and fully democratic Dairy Industry in India. He even brought mighty NESTLE to its knees when it said in 1950s that Indians are worthless and they can not run dairy industry. He was one of the very few lucky people who had worked with the likes of Sardar Patel, Nehru, Indira, Moraraji Desai etc. Maniben Patel (daughter of Sardar Patel) and Tribhuvandas Patel also played a great role in Dairy co-operatives of Gujarat. A must read and every Indian should read and ponder. "Be the change you want to see" -Mahatma Gandhi. 
Highly Recommended (9/10)