Quem passage ceny and wereThe Father Revolution Vanghese Karachd agus career andper me, Bar beses say back in German and the rest is this. He helsevedas biggest assets are is people. He moved the standards of millions of poor farmersuna bom on 26 November 1921 Calicut. Kemal in a Syrian Christian mily. His fatherci surgeon in Coch. He graduated in Physics from Loyola College. Madras in 1940 and then obtahis Bachelous in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madinas. He also studied a TaasTechnical Institute. Jamshiraliter which he went to USA to pursue his mastersKuriem came back from USA and was immediately assigned to work at Anand in Gujarat's Kheda diin 1929 He had made up his mind to quit but was persuaded to stay by Tribhovandas Panel whobrought together farmers as a union to process and sell their milk. So he stayed and his sincerewere applauded by the then PM Lai Bahadur Shastri who came to inaugurate Amuls plansKurien was mentioned by the Ashoka Foundation as one of the eminent present day social entreHis billion-litre idea or Operation Flood" is the world's biggest agricultural development prosThe operation transformed India from a milk-lacking nation to the largest milk producer in thesurpassing the US in 1998, with 17% of global output in 2010-11He also made the country self-reliant in edible oils. He also founded 30 institutions which arefarmersKurien was behind the creation of Amul, where milk powder from buffalo milk was produced ftime in the world. Kurien's life story is chronicled in his personal memoir-'I too Had a dremaker Shyam Benegal produced a film. Manthan, based on the cooperative milk movement inNot able to finance it himself, he sought Kurien's help, who got half a million farmers to coeach for the making of the movie. The farmers loved their own film and it won many awplanned to use the movie to start such cooperative ventures in Latin America,Verghese and his wife Molly had one daughter and a grandson. He died on 9th September, 20brief illness in Nadiad, near Anand. Interestingly, the man behind the milk revolution didn'tdhimself. His cooperative movement alleviated the misery and poverty of millions, not only inalso outside India. His contributions will always be admired.​