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National Milk Day in India

India's milk day, on the birthday of Verghese Kurien, whose cooperatives made fresh milk and paneer part of daily life.

A tile drawn for this day, not a photograph.

Cheeses for National Milk Day in India

National Milk Day has been observed on 26 November since 2014, the birthday of Verghese Kurien, who led the Anand cooperative movement and Operation Flood. The programme organised millions of small dairy farmers into village cooperatives and made India the largest milk producer in the world. Paneer, once a dish of the north, became a supermarket staple across the country, sold in fresh blocks. Cooperatives in Gujarat also began making processed and aged cheeses at scale. The day is marked by dairy cooperatives, veterinary colleges and schools with talks and milk distributions.

The cheeses

PaneerThe fresh cheese that cooperative dairies sell across India.ChhenaThe same curd unpressed, the base of eastern India's sweets.
About this page

Written by the EveryCheese desk with AI assistance. Background: "Verghese Kurien" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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