Kurien: the man who redefined business

Abstract

It was only a couple of days ago that an audio book on Verghese Kurien was released in Mumbai and business leaders paid rich tributes for the work of the milkman of India. A statement by N.R. Narayana Murthy, co-founder of Infosys Ltd, asking the government of India to confer the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, before time ran out, was somewhat prophetic as it indeed ran out of time.

It is a sad contradiction that in the year declared as the United Nations year of cooperatives, we have lost one of the most significant votaries of the cooperative form of business. Kurien showed the world that a farmer-owned and controlled business could be run as professionally as any transnational corporation. Read more at: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/tvdayQ1JKRW8jJHlvfamzH/Kurien-the-man-who-redefined-business.html