The dozen Indian companies that also changed the larger universe around them

Milk Might
{mosimage}For an economy its size, India holds a shameful record: 43per cent of its children are malnourished. This would have been worse but foranother factoid: Indiais the world's largest producer of milk, the richest source of protein forchildren, with a production of some 118 million tonnes. Much of the credit forthis vests at Kaira, Gujarat, where a mechanical engineer, Verghese Kurien, setup a dairy in 1948. And, more importantly, helped local headman TribhuvandasPatel organise a cooperative of dairy farmers. That effort grew into theGujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, or GCMMF, the Amul brand and,later, a nationwide grid of district milk cooperatives under Operation Flood -changing lives of both consumer and farmers. GCMMF's Managing Director R.S.Sodhi sums up its ethos: "We serve masses on both the demand and supply sidesof our business."