Thirty-five-year-old Thenlay Nurboo was all set to travel to São Paulo, Brazil for the Mundial do Queijo do Brasil 2026, an international cheese competition, when he missed his vaccination window for yellow fever — a mandatory requirement for travel there. He had to stay back. He sent his Yak Churpi with the National Dairy Development Board instead, and let it speak for itself. It did. Nurboo won gold. “When Jitendraji (Dr Jitendra Singh Rajawat, manager at NDDB) told me I had won gold for churpi, I was happy. But when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Ladakh UT’s Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena tweeted about me, I was ecstatic, my happiness knew no bounds,” said Nurboo, speaking from his village Durbuk Changthang, in Ladakh, adding that his phone has not stopped ringing since.…