Former Indian president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam dies due to heart attack.
Shillong: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam was admitted to a private hospital in Shillong in Meghalaya in a critical condition.
Dr Kalam, 84, collapsed at the Indian Institute of Management-Shillong while delivering a lecture to the students of the B-school.
"He is in the Intensive Care Unit. We are examining him. We suspect that it could be cardiac arrest," John Sailo Ryntathiang, director of Bethany Hospital, told IANS.
Dr Kalam served as the 11th President on India from 2002 to 2007.
Dr Kalam was born in Rameswaram on October 15, 1931, to a boatman.
He played a pivotal role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear test in 1998, the first since the test by India in 1974. He was known as the missile man of India.
For his achievements, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan and Bharat Ratna, and then he became the 11th President of India in 2002.
APJ Abdul Kalam’s Poem on Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji
Guru Prakasham
Many many years ago our Gurus lit the lamp
And the Prakasham was born carrying power of the soul
This light of truth on the lands of five rivers
It orbited and orbited around the sun
Along with the earth that carried it as sindhur
This earthly Prakasham is so powerful
Of human’s universal message of one God
Four hundred orbits gone in no time
The great Prakasham has even out-glowed the Sun
As it orbits all around the sun, even sun bows in enhanced reverence
And salutes the earth, for all that it carries
The Greatest Prakasham of Guru Granth Sahib
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam