GREAT LIVES: A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM: THE PEOPLES PRESIDENT

Trace the remarkable journey of a small-town boy from a struggling family as he rose to become the President of the country earning along the way the epithets of The Missile Man of India and The People rsquo s President.

Dr APJ Kalam abolished the practice of having a larger chair for the Rashtrapati on a dias when attending any function

He regularly read both the Quran and the Geeta and played the veena and wrote poetry in his spare time

His favourite Mahabharata character was Vidura because he had the courage to differ and fight injustice in a peaceful manner

Caliph Umar, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Emperor Ashoka and Abraham Lincoln were the five greatest human beings to have lived on this earth according to Dr Kalam