Dr APJ Abdul Kalam: The President who never stopped being an aam aadmi

I don't have an APJ Abdul Kalam story. Except perhaps for that one time in middle school when a quiz qualifier question asked his full name and left me slightly red-faced. But I may be in a minority. As soon as the news of Kalam's death hit us, as expected, Facebook and Twitter were flooded…

APJ Abdul Kalam dies, India mourns ‘People’s President’

Former president and Bharat Ratna APJ Abdul Kalam died on Monday after collapsing during a lecture in Shillong. Kalam, 83, collapsed during a speech at the IIM Shillong and was rushed to the  nearby Bethany Hospital where doctors put him on oxygen and tried to revive him. "He was brought into hospital without a pulse…