{"id":315688,"date":"2019-10-15T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315688"},"modified":"2019-10-15T07:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T07:23:59","slug":"nation-remembers-dr-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nation-remembers-dr-apj-abdul-kalam-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation remembers Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-315689 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"569\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam.jpg 551w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/abdul-kalam-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\" \/>The nation paid homage to former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dr Kalam, known as the &#8216;Missile Man of India&#8217; for his contributions towards the development of the country&#8217;s missile projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and other political dignitaries paid tribute to Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia salutes APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary. Dr Kalam had a vision of Strong and Modern India in the 21<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0Century and strived his entire life to achieve it.&#8221; Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;His exemplary life is an inspiration to every Indian\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said, \u201cI join the nation in remembering former President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary today. Known as missile man of India, Dr Kalam made innumerable contributions to Indian defence. Dr Kalam was a great scholar, teacher who earned love and respect from everywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDr Kalam was a great scholar, teacher and earned love and respect from everywhere,\u201d Naidu said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHis commitment, his patriotism and his vision to make India a strong nation will continue to inspire us. The best way to pay tribute to him would be by encouraging the young people and children to dream high, aim high and work hard,\u201d Naidu added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh also remembered former President and asserted that he continues to live on in the hearts and the minds of the people of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRemembering former President of India and a phenomenal scientist, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary. He was a people\u2019s president who would continue to live in the hearts and minds of the people of India. I bow to him on his Jayanti,\u201d Rajnath said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nation paid homage to former President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam on his birth anniversary on Tuesday. Dr Kalam, known as the &#8216;Missile Man of India&#8217; for his contributions towards the development of the country&#8217;s missile projects. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and other political dignitaries paid tribute to Abdul Kalam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315693,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315688\/revisions\/315693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}