THESE are some of the things you could be drinking with your daily milk: caustic soda, sugar, common salt, wheat flour, blotting paper, baking soda, urea, hydrogen peroxide, formalin, palmolein oil and detergents, the favourite brands being Nirma and Ezee. Most Indians are resigned to drinking milk diluted with water. But now, hordes of milkmen—especially in north India—are using rough-and-ready chemistry to create 'synthetic milk' that, taken in small daily doses, is poison.