Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is saddened by the demise of ‘simple, practical and caring’ former president A.PJ Abdul Kalam, recounts how he had one opportunity of having a telephonic conversation with the genius. The 72-year-old, on his blog, shared: “A simple man, of childlike demeanour, practical, caring and endearing to all…my only achievement of contact with him – a telephone conversation just before he was announced to be the next President of India. India is grieved.”
