This piece from Dr. Rajan is evocative. Dr. Kalam is a unique President of this democracy. This July, he came for the Platinum Jubilee of my school in Orissa where I was a student more than 40 years ago. The weather was cyclonic, and he could not take the helicopter flight from Bhubaneswar on the scheduled day. But he insisted on being there the next day, weather permitting. He did not want to disappoint a thousand school children. He was there 24 hours later, creating a kind of history in the annals of Rashtrapati Bhawan till today. I left my car at the hotel and walked all the way to the playgound of my school.
