I Too Had a Dream

by Verghese Kurien

During those eight months, however, I looked around and said to myself that since I found myself placed in this unhappy situation, I must find something to do. This is what anyone with a good education would do; otherwise the so-called good education is worthless.

Working with Tribhuvandas and Kaira’s dairy farmers, I saw that when you work merely for your own profit, the pleasure is transitory; but if you work for others, there is a deeper sense of fulfilment and if things are handled well, the money, too, is more than adequate.

I was to learn yet another valuable but sad lesson: that the technical advice of ‘experts’ is all too often dictated by the economic interests of the advanced countries and not by the needs or ground realities in developing countries.