01804nam a22002297a 4500 20220125144433.0 220125b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788172237363 AL eng 23 954.053 NAIK P M Nair 14739 Kalam Effect: My Years With The President New Delhi Harper Collins Publishers India 2008 xv,147 p. HB 20x13 cm. 250.00 ₹ 250.00 A.P.J. Abdul Kalam became President of India in July 2002. He was a surprise choice. A scientist and not a politician, with an unusual hairstyle and an unassuming way of doing things, and no other agenda except that of seeing India become a developed and strong nation. How would such a man fit into the regal splendour of Rashtrapati Bhavan, and all the pomp and ceremony of a head of state? What followed, however, as P.M. Nair shows in The Kalam Eff ect, was a remarkable presidency that in the next five years transformed the way people looked at this office, and made Kalam popular in a way few politicians have been. Rashtrapati Bhavan became a much more accessible place, and his 'at homes' drew guests in the thousands. Not only that, the website he set up became a huge draw, and people wrote to him on e-mail or otherwise from across the country. His positive attitude infected all those who came in touch with him. While the reasons for his popularity will be analysed for a long time, Nair, who was his Secretary, suggests in this affectionate yet factual account some of the probable causes. One of these being that Kalam is just a very special human being. Presidents-Attitude 14740 Indian History 14741 NAIR (P M) 14742 ddc GF 221344 221344 0 0 ddc 0 0 HIS AL AL 2013-03-24 0 954.053 NAIK GF02046 2022-01-25 00:00:00 2022-01-25 GF