Relief India Trust supports High Court’s tribute to Dr. Abdul Kalam

The whole nation is grieved by the demise of exemplary Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. Many thought that an entire week should be declared as a national off in the memory of late ex-president. But isn’t this idea fundamentally against what he preached throughout his life? Dr. Kalam worked till his last breath. He left for…

‘People’s President’ APJ Abdul Kalam laid to rest with full state honours in Rameswaram

The mortal remains of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who died on Monday, were taken from his ancestral house in coastal Tamil Nadu's Rameswaram town to the local mosque ahead of the funeral as thousands of mourners - young and old - poured into the island town to pay their last respects. Prime Minister Narendra…

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…