Do you know once upon a time (Around 1967-75) a number of children died in India due to a curious disease called the Indian Childhood Cirrhosis. By late 70's researchers started realizing that this was a disease due to chronic copper intoxication, resulting from boiling of milk in brass utensils.
The doctors did not do anything. The WHO did not do anything. The Government did not do anything. However, due to stainless steel revolution when the brass utensils were gradually and silently replaced by stainless steel utensils, the Indian Childhood Cirrhosis quietly disappeared from the scene.
RE:Untold Stories
by P M G V SRINIVAS on Sep 23, 2007 01:10 AM Permalink
Thank you Mr Prakash for posting an important and useful information about milk and its side effects when boiled in brass utensils.
Re: Untold Stories
by chandu patel on Sep 06, 2010 08:17 AM Permalink
It is amazing that Dr. Kurien is taking all the credit for successful Cooperative movement when he was not even around in Anand, when the successful cooperative movement was born under the leadership of Shri. T.K.Patel under the guidance of Sardar Patel. Dr. Kurien did not know Sardar Patel and had never met him. Sardar Patel asked Tribhuvandas to start the movement and he turned movement into successfull Amul venture. This is the story.
Re: Untold Stories
by chandu patel on Sep 06, 2010 08:16 AM Permalink
It is amazing that Dr. Kurien is taking all the credit for successful Cooperative movement when he was not even around in Anand, when the successful cooperative movement was born under the leadership of Shri. T.K.Patel under the guidance of Sardar Patel. Dr. Kurien did not know Sardar Patel and had never met him. Sardar Patel asked Tribhuvandas to start the movement and he turned movement into successfull Amul venture. This is the story.
and we need money going into the hands of the villagers, not the scoundrels that make up for the middlemen who eat maximum profits, and the government who plays into these middlemen with money.
I heard about story of rise of Amul dairy.It was like pure desi version of rise of an industry from nothing. But above story is incomplete and without any information or reference. Seems rediff is running out of good writers with so many big Indian news portals in competition like www.timesofindia.com and hindustantimes.com and in hindi dainikjagran.com to name a few.
Everyone is talking abt this topic, check this wat people comment on this. http://igoto.co.uk/m33 and I agree with this people they are right..! I hope you people like it..
I appreciate the above article is an excerpt from a book, but it is probably the most horrible article I have read. Snippets seem to be taken out and put together without any thought to the flow of this article, leaving the reader utterly confused. Then the poor grammar and spelling mistakes! Makes you wonder if the book in itself is that bad.
What a disgrace to the legacy of Amul, which otherwise should have made for really interesting reading. If this article is supposed to inspire us to pick up this book, it has succeeded in doing the absolute opposite.
RE:What is this?
by Aby Koshy on Sep 20, 2007 07:31 PM Permalink
I whole-heartedly agree. Among the many photo-articles that I have read, this, annoyingly and most unfortunately, has been the most ham-handed attempt at forging an article by cut-pasting excerpts from somewhere and anywhere. Whoever did this is a priceless ass.
