૨૭.૧૧.૨૦૧૪
26.11.2014 Nation celebrates 'National Milk Day"...... Dr. V. Kurien has made history ,& he will be always remembered as Father Of White Revolution
૦૯.૦૯.૨૦૧૨
શ્વેત ક્રાંતિ ના
પ્રણેતા ડો. વર્ગીસ કુરિયન નું આજ રોજ
નિધન થયું.....શ્રધ્ધા સુમન સહ......
૨૬.૦૯.૧૯૨૧-૦૯.૦૯.૨૦૧૨
ખેડૂતો
તરફ થી થયેલું સન્માન અને ત્રણ રાષ્ટ્રીય પુરસ્કારો મારા હૃદય માં કેન્દ્રનું સ્થાન ધરાવે છે,પણ
અમુક એવાં પુરસ્કાર છે જે મને સ્પર્શી ગયાં છે.હરિદ્વાર માં સ્વામી
સાથ્વમિત્રાનંદે ૧૯૯૦ માં મને ‘સમન્વય પુરસ્કાર’ એનાયત કર્યો તે એમનો એક
છે.મને એ વાત ની હજી ખબર નથી કે શા માટે સ્વામીજીએ મારી કદર કરવાનો નિર્ણય લીધો
હશે,છતાંય હું તે પુરસ્કાર સ્વીકારવા માટે હિમાલય માં તેમનાં આશ્રમ પર ગયો.એ અનુભવ
ખુબજ આહલાદક હતો.પુરસ્કાર માટે સુંદર કાર્યક્રમ ગોઠવાયો.મંચ ઉપર મારી જમણી બાજુ
સ્વામીજી બેઠા.અને તેમની જમણી બાજુ એલ. કે. અડવાણી,મારી ડાબી બાજુ વિશ્વ હિંદુ
પરિષદના નેતા હતા.અને મારી સમક્ષ ભગવા
વસ્ત્રધારીઓ નો જાણે સમુદ્ર.!!આ પ્રસંગ માટે સેંકડો સાધુઓ આવ્યા હતા.મારા કામ ની
પ્રસંશા કરતું પ્રવચન અડવાણી એ આપ્યું.અને તે સમયે મને પુરસ્કાર તથા રોકડ ઇનામ માં
રૂ.૫૦૦૦ પણ આપવામાં આવ્યા......
આમ
તો હું ખાસ ધાર્મિક માણસ નથી.,છતાં આ પ્રસંગમાં હું હાજર રહ્યો તેનું ખાસ કારણ
હતું કે એક હિંદુ ધર્મ ના નેતાએ એનાં કામ ની કદરમાં એક ખ્રિસ્તીને ચૂંટી કાઢ્યો તે
ખૂબજ મહત્વ ની બાબત ગણાય.આ મુદ્દાનો ઉલ્લેખ મારા સ્વીકાર ના ભાષણમાં પણ મે
કર્યો.મેં કહ્યું..—“હું એ વાતે મારી જાત ને વિશેષ રીતે
ભાગ્યવાન સમજુ છું કે હિમાલયના ઋષિઓએ ઠરાવ્યું કે ભારત ના છેક છેવાડા ના વિસ્તાર
માંથી આવનાર વ્યક્તિ નું સન્માન કરવું..હું જન્મથી ખ્રિસ્તી છું,છતાં તેઓ મારું
આટલું સન્માન કરે છે-એવાત જ પ્રતિક સમાન છે કે દેશના કોઈ પણ ખૂણે થી હું થી આવું ,કોઈ પણ ધર્મ પાળું,પહેલી અને સૌથી
મુખ્ય વાત એછેકે હું ભારતીય નાગરિક છું અને એ દ્રષ્ટિ એ આ પુરસ્કાર મારે માટે એક
મોટી પ્રતિષ્ટા આપનાર પ્રસંગ બને છે....”
(મારું
સ્વપ્ન ....વર્ગીસ કુરિયન .....)
“We are
going to have milk grid…”.Dr.Kurien….
I had
prvilrage to be associated with
operation flood -first milk tankar to Delhi from Anand….Nirupam
Dear all
You may be aware that
Dr Verdhese Kurien, the father of "white flood" revolution in India,
is not with us. Gujarat is indebted to him for his self work for farmers and
bringing India on the map of Dairy Industry. His visions, ethical value based
endeavours and his entire life for enlistment of Amul Dairy and in tern farmers
of Gujarat can never be forgotten. Please find below a letter written by him to
his grandson, very touchy, very inspiring. We lost a great visionary and
patriot in present corrupted India when we his most. May his soul rest in peace
With warm regards
Dinesh Bhatt.
Contents of a
letter addressed by Late Dr. Verghese Kurien (appeared in his autobiography)
TO MY GRANDSON
When did I write to
you last? I have trouble even remembering! In today’s fast-paced world we have
become so addicted to instant communication that we prefer to use a telephone.
But speaking on the telephone only gives us an immediate but fleeting joy.
Writing is different. Writing – even if it is a letter – not only conveys our
present concerns and views of the events taking place around us but it becomes
a possession that can be treasured and re-read over the years, with great,
abiding pleasure.
What is contained
in the chapters (The Book : I TOO HAD A DREAM) that follow is, of
course, more than a letter. You may not wish to read it all right away but,
perhaps, a couple of decades or more from now, you will pick up these jottings
of mine again and they will give you a deeper understanding of what I have
done, and the reasons I pursued a life of services to our nation’s farmers. You
will then discover in them valuable reminder of the days just before the world
entered the twenty-first century. And you may want to share my memories with
those of your generation, or even younger, provide them glimpse of the world
your grandparents lived in and knew.
I started my
working life soon after our country became independent. The noblest task in
those days was to contribute in whatever way we could towards building an India
of our dreams – a nation where our people would not only hold their heads high
in freedom but would be free from hunger and poverty. A nation where our people
could live with equal respect and love for one another. A nation that would
eventually be counted among the foremost nations of the world. It was then that
I realized, in all humility, that choosing to lead one kind of life means
putting aside the desire to pursue other options. This transformation took
place within me fifty years ago, when I agreed to work for a small cooperative
of dairy farmers who were trying to gain control over their lives.
To be quite honest,
service to our nation’s farmers was not the career I had envisioned for myself.
But somehow, a series of events swept me along and put me in a certain place at
a certain time when I had to choose between one option or another. I was faced
with a choice that would transform my life. I could have pursued a career in
metallurgy and perhaps become the chief executive of a large company. Or, I
could have opted for a commission in the Indian Army and maybe retired as a
general. Or, I could have left for the US and gone on to become a highly
successful NRI. Yet I chose none of these because somewhere, deep down,
I knew I could make a more meaningful contribution by working here in Anand,
Gujarat .
Your grandmother
too made an important choice. She knew, in those early days, life in Anand
could not offer even the simple comforts that we take for granted today.
However, she ardently supported my choice to live and work in Anand. That choice
of your grandmother to stand by me has given me an everlasting strength, always
ensuring that I shouldered my responsibilities with poise.
Whenever I have
received any recognition for my contributions towards the progress of our
country, I have always emphasized that it is recognition of the achievements of
many people with whom I had the privilege to be associated with. I would like
to stress even more strongly that my contributions have been
possible only because I have consistently adhered to certain core values.
Values that I inherited from my parents and other family elders; values that I
saw in my mentor and supporter here in Anand – Tribhuvandas Patel. I have often spoken
of integrity as the most important of these values, realizing that integrity –
and personal integrity, at that – is being honest to yourself. If you are
always honest to yourself, it does not take much effort in always being honest
with others.
I have also learnt
what I am sure you, too, will find out some day. Life is a privilege and to
waste it would wrong. In living this privilege called ‘Life’. You must accept
responsibility for yourself, always use your talents to the best of your
ability and contribute somehow to the common good. That common good will
present itself to you in many forms everyday. If you just look around you,
you will find there is a lot waiting to be done: your friend may need some
help, your teacher could be looking for a volunteer, or the community you live
in will need you to make a contribution. I hope that you, too,
will discover, as I did, that failure is not about not succeeding. Rather, it
is about not putting in you best effort and not contributing, however modestly,
to the common good.
In life you, too,
will discover, as I did, that anything can go wrong at any
time and mostly does. Yet, there is little correlation between the
circumstances of people’s lives and how happy they are. Most of us compare
ourselves with someone we think is happier – a relative, an acquaintance, or
often, someone we barely know. But when we start looking closely we realize
that what we saw were only images of perfection. And that will help us
understand and cherish what we have, rather than what we don’t have.
Do you remember
when you accompanied me to the magnificent ceremony in Delhi in which our
President awarded me the Padma Vibhushan in 1999? With great pride, you slipped
the medal around your neck, looked at it in awe and asked me very innocently if
you could keep it. Do you remember the answer your grandmother and I gave you?
We told you that of course, this medal was yours as much as it is
mine but that you should not be satisfied in merely keeping my awards – the
challenge before you was to earn your own rewards for the work that you did in
you life time.
And in the
end, if we are brave enough to love, strong enough to rejoice in
another’s happiness and wise enough to know that there is enough to go around
for all, then we would have lived our lives to the fullest.
