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Google celebrates India's milkman's birth anniversary

5 Dariya News

New Delhi 26-Nov-2015

Honouring 'Father of white revolution' Verghese Kurien, Google on Thursday made a doodle of him on his 94th birth anniversary.Also known as the "Milkman of India", Kurien made India the world's largest milk producer, an upliftment from being a milk-deficient country.Celebrating his 94th birth anniversary, Google showed Kurien on its homepage with a can of milk in his hand.He was appointed as founder-chairman of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1965 by the then prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.