The Kalam effect: my years with the President
- Haryana HarperCollins Publishers 2008
- 147 p.
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.