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Verghese Kurien: The Man Who Hated Milk and Built India's Biggest Food Revolution

Verghese Kurien arrived in Anand by obligation, planned to leave within weeks, and never liked milk. What he built there — Amul and the White Revolution — fed a nation and made its farmers its owners.



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