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General Forum: Current 'Affairs' | | DR.KURIEN DESERVES MORE THAN THIS(OPERATION FLOOD) | |
| Keerty-Happy ugadi- to u and all the TP members
Posted by: DoBoy At: 29, Mar 2006 1:18:04 PM IST
Posted by: Keerty At: 29, Mar 2006 10:07:19 AM IST
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So what u r basically telling here is that at the end of day , when u leave ur workplace, u need to kicked and sent out for the service rendered by you and not given a good farewell. Hope u dont hv criticism "phobia".
LOL
Posted by: DoBoy At: 29, Mar 2006 11:23:50 AM IST
It happens everywhere in India .. la la laaaa
Posted by: Malakpet Rowdy At: 28, Mar 2006 5:11:09 PM IST
The worst part being that his own proteges Ms.Amrita patel and Mr.B.Vyas playing a key role to his ouster. If your own people dig graves, whom can u believe in this world? Surely not for someone, who has done so much for the country and made us self sufficient in milk production and keeping so many children happy with their favourite drink.
Posted by: DoBoy At: 28, Mar 2006 5:06:25 PM IST
BROADMINDS are ever appreciated by broadminds only.
"Selfish" will look upto their needs.
Posted by: Mrs. shaloo At: 27, Mar 2006 1:58:13 PM IST
Last week Verghese Kurien resigned from the GCMMF (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation) after having served the organisation for over 34 years as its chairman. Verghese Kurien made drinking milk possible in this country. He made it affordable as well. He was the man who made farmers rich long before the ITCs and the Bhartis of the world stepped in. He thought about farmers and agrarian India long before they became stellar movies like Manthan. He also created Brand Amul when everyone said we could never have a truly national brand.
So why did he have to go under a cloud? Why was he pained to take this step? And why do we in India never honour those who do so much for us? I guess it is a genetic flaw: we are not a country proud of its heritage. We obliterate the values that have been left behind only because we are too keen to take the credit.
I am aware that Dr Kurien was very hurt by the manner in which his own protégés behaved: be it an Amrita Patel or for that matter a B. Vyas; but then again, this is very typically Indian. You will have a former chief justice of India go hoarse decrying the judicial system of the day just as Justice Khare now does with amazing regularity, but will never remember why he remained so passive during his tenure in office.
We as a nation just don’t come to terms with the past. To come back to Dr Kurien: he was the brain which set off Operation Flood; he was the man who gave India its first steel buffaloes when he launched Mother Dairy vending operations. I still remember how in Kolkata, many of us would volunteer to go and get the milk for the house only because we were excited by the contraption that was this man’s brainchild. Very few know that Dr Kurien was the one who brought Tetra Pak to India only so that milk could increase its shelf life especially in a country that lacked a decent cold chain and items were climatically perishable.
Dr Kurien taught the Indian farmer the virtues of harmonious and profitable living; he injected a sense of transparency that our agri-business so very badly needed and he did it with dignity and with silence. For all of this he fought many battles, almost all of them single-handedly: battles against the bureaucracy; against the errant politician and at times even those who were part of the system. But then it took a Judas from within to fell him.
Dr Kurien also gave India its first Indian Institute of Rural Management: at a time when every bright young Indian was more keen on pursuing a life beyond Indian borders, or if in India, wanted to be far away from its villages. He sensed and truly believed that a reformed India would have to be cognisant of the ailments of rural India. And he worked tirelessly as the good doctor. Only to find himself ejected in a manner truly despicable.
I have often wondered why we in this country do not respect those who have given us so much. Why do we belittle those who taught us so much in a manner that would most certainly break their heart? Dr Kurien is 84 today: one may argue that he should have known when to step down, but that is not important. What is, is the manner in which we let great men and women go. They must be allowed to fade away with care and decency and not pushed out in some silly boardroom coup.
Amrita Patel and B. Vyas will also age. It is then that they and many like them will realise that there is great soulful virtue in respecting our elders. In seeking them out and seeking their blessings. In cherishing all that they have taught us, and more critically, in giving them due credit. In the twilight of their lives, no one has the right to pain them when they have only attempted to spread joy and warmth.
This is equally true of most of corporate India. As I am certain about large tracts of our society. In this quest for modernity and youthfulness, we sometimes forget that we too will one day turn 84. We too will seek credit and praise for what is rightfully ours. I do not believe we had any right to treat Dr Kurien this way. Not after what he has done for us. The nation owes him an apology. Nothing more. Nothing
less.
courtesy:Mr.Suhel Seth-DC
Posted by: DoBoy At: 27, Mar 2006 1:38:38 PM IST
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