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Dreams to fuel India

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam (Oct 15, 1931-July 27, 2015)
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Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam embodied the India he loved: unassuming, industrious and always looking skyward. Born into a modest Tamil family in Rameswaram, he sold newspapers and distributed postcards to help his father. This early lesson in service seems to have never left him.

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