Arun Raste’s ‘Book : Cooperatives In The 21st Century
The cooperative movement started in India as an initiative to promote social and economic justice to the class of Indian society which didn’t have the resources to uplift themselves. In his book, Cooperatives in 21st Century: Navigating New Frontiers, Arun Raste explores and investigates the perimeters and boundaries along with the work done and can be […]
Dr Kurien: The man who brought milk to a million homes
This book is yet another attempt to decode the late Dr Verghese Kurien, also known as ‘milk man of India’ who transformed the dairy sector through a three-tier cooperative model of dairy farmers, transforming the nation from being milk deficient to the world’s biggest producer of milk. The book captures the essence of Kurien’s pragmatic […]
Veganism Isn’t the Answer to India’s Dairy Industry Politics
Yamini Narayanan’s Mother Cow, Mother India, published in 2023 by the Stanford University Press, and recently published in India by Navayana Publications, interrogates the politics of milk and dairying in India, the critical space it occupies as a sacred commodity in the religious imagination of Hinduism, and how the latter’s framing of cow as mother is […]
A Fresh History of Lactose Intolerance
Six decades ago, Pedro Cuatrecasas, a fledgling resident at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was studying the lives of impoverished residents of Baltimore when he noticed an unsettling trend. In interviews, a number of his Black patients would confess that they found milk repellent. The consistency of their laments alarmed Cuatrecasas. He suspected, after […]