Kalam connect: what made him the ‘People’s President’?

In the years leading up to India’s independence, a boy was born in the south Indian town of Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on October 15, 1931. That boy was the youngest of five siblings in a once wealthy family that found itself in difficult times. Despite the circumstances in which he was raised, he stuck with his education. When the country gained independence from British rule, one can imagine the teenager dreaming up a future — for himself, and for his country. He surely set out and achieved all of them, and perhaps more, as Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam became one of the most beloved Presidents that the country has ever seen.