Freedom fighters · Science & public service · 1921–2012
Verghese Kurien
Milkman of India. Built the Amul cooperative model so village producers could own the value chain, not only feed a middleman.
Operation Flood and the Gujarat cooperative story showed institutions can beat extraction when farmers organise. Kurien fought bureaucratic ego with engineering and stubborn process.
Corruption loves opaque supply chains. Cooperatives with accounts are a civic technology.
Why on this wall
Producer power against rent-seeking middle layers.