DR Kalam's welcome candour!

One may regret Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s political naiveté. One must applaud his intellectual honesty. In his new book about his years in Rashtrapati Bhawan, Turning Points: A Journey through Challenges, he has vindicated the solitary opinion expressed by this scribe in relation to two contentious events that occurred during his tenure. The first related to the installation of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh when Mrs Gandhi was reputed to have sacrificed the post for herself on the urgings of “an inner voice”.

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