The state authorities rejected the plan to replicate the Amul model across the country because
a. They did not think that the plan could be replicated.
b. The plan did not get lal Bahadur Shastri’s approval.
c. The funds needed to implement the plan were beyond the government’s budget.
d. they thought that the Amul team was overestimating the costs.

'Utterly butterly delicious’
a. was the phrase that launched Amul.
b. earned revenues for Amul.
c. was written by Sylvester daCunha.
d. is a phrase that everyone dislikes.

Pestonjee was fooling the farmers.

1. Who was Pestonjee?

2. How was the fooling the farmers?

3. Who helped the farmers and how?

“We need you here!”

1. Who said these words and to whom?  

2. Where was he needed and why?

3. What was the speaker’s request?

Why did Dr Kurien give an uninterested response to h is interviewer? What did he study abroad?

What was Operation Flood? What was Lal Bahadur Shastri’s role in it?

Complete this timeline of the milestones in Dr Kurien’s life, in your notebook.

Two achievements of the Amul pattern are rural development and the empowerment of farmers. Think and add at least three more.

Do you think the term White Revolution is suitable for the pattern begun by Dr Kurien? Give reasons for your answer.

Look up the meanings of these genres in a dictionary. Write the words correctly in this diagram.

             
What genre does this lesson? ‘The Milkman of India’, belong to? _______________________

Rewrite this conversation in reported speech.

“What do you know about pasteurisation?” the interviewer asked the young man.

“Something to do with milk,” was the young man’s uninterested response.

“Correct! You are selected for a scholarship in diary engineering,” said the interviewer.

“But I don’t know anything about diary engineering,” said a shocked Kurien.

The Interviewer responded, “If you want to study abroad, this is the scholarship that is available.”

“It seems I have no other option,” said Verghese Kurien to himself.

Imagine you had interviewed Dr Verhese Kurien for your school magazine. Writ the interview farming at least 10-12 suitable questions and their responses. Use these guidelines.
-      Plan an outline of the interview – you could give an introduction about Dr Kurien.
-      Use the information the lesson to frame questions about him.
-      Use questions beginning with ‘How, Tell me about’ to gather extra information.
-      Avoid farming questions that will only have ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ as responses. Make questions that
        prompted Dr Kurien to give details.
-      Wherever possible use Dr Kurien’s actual spoken words. Use quotation marks at places
        where you use what he said, word-for-word.
-      Write your first draft and then revise it. Check for dates, spellings of names, and so on.

How did Verghse Kurien feel about getting into Dairy Engineering?

Which opportunity did Dr Kurien see and what did he do?