India lost Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam two years ago
Bharat Ratna Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the 11th President of India, passed away on July 27, 2015, while delivering a lecture at IIM Shillong. Kalam used to distribute newspapers as a 10-year-old in his hometown Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. He is known as the 'Missile Man of India' for his work on the development of ballistic missile.