🌑 Wisdom Drop-15
“Strength is not born when individuals rise — it is born when they rise together.”

The rise of Amul and IFFCO is not the rise of two organisations.
It is the rise of millions of invisible hands, each pouring a drop of effort into a shared vessel that becomes too vast to be ignored.

In a world obsessed with unicorns, stock valuations, and private capital, cooperatives remind us of a truth so old that it feels almost rebellious today:

Wealth is not only what you accumulate.
Sometimes wealth is what you distribute.

Amul stands at World No.1 not because it sold milk,
but because it returned dignity to the women who produced it.

IFFCO stands at World No.2 not because it supplied fertiliser,
but because it gave farmers control over the very inputs that decide their future.

A cooperative is a quiet revolution —
a system where one vote matters more than one crore.
Where the measure of success is not shareholder delight,
but the smile of a producer who finally feels seen.

And in an age where companies grow by centralising power,
cooperatives grow by sharing it.

— IAS Monk