Verghese Kurien was honoured by many institutions with many titles. But nothing compared with the honour of his actual achievement. When he reached Anand, Kurien was barely twenty-eight and India produced barely 17 million tons of milk. In 2011, when he turned ninety, India produced 121 million tons and became the largest producer of milk in the world. All this because of a man who did not drink milk. The father of India’s Milk Revolution ‘did not like the taste’.
