TY - BOOK AU - Nair, P. M. TI - The Kalam effect: my years with the President SN - 9788172239305 U1 - 954.0532092 PY - 2008/// CY - Haryana PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Presidents--Attitudes KW - India N2 - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam became President of India in July 2002. What followed, however, 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. While the reasons for his popularity will be analysed for a long time, P.M. Nair, who was his Secretary, shows through a series of vignettes in this memoir some of the probable causes ER -