The white stream submerges countless Indian households — right from a humble shanty to the upper crust of our society — since early morning. This is an everyday routine. The democratic flood sweeps across all classes and demographies to ensure health and strength with a daily dose of shiny snow-white fluid.

Be it of packaged, pouched, tetrapack or bottled variety or poured inside a can or a glass, milk is a universally recommended health drink and ingredient for a child’s growth and consolidation of its bones and teeth. Different provinces of India opt for jersey cow, buffalo, goat, yak, sheep or camel milk depending on their regional cattle breed and availability.

Come Wednesday, Nov 26, is the National Milk Day. But a heated debate still rages on around this nourishing white liquid. To

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