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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi, July 28 <\/strong>- Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said that A.P.J. Abdul Kalam&#39;s simplicity touched not just him but everyone who met the former president of India, who passed away in Shillong on Monday night.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kalam, 83, collapsed while delivering a lecture to students of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in the Meghalaya capital when he suffered a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;I had met him quite a few times and knew him personally. Not just me, everyone who met him will agree that one thing that touched everyone was his simplicity which got people attached to him,&quot; Ganguly told IANS.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former left-handed batsman is in the national capital to launch Apollo Munich Health Insurance&#39;s Dengue Care initiative.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ganguly, who played 113 Test matches for India, had also received India&#39;s fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, from Kalam back in 2004. Kalam was president from 2002 to 2007.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&quot;He was the president of the country, a science wizard and what not. See at the end of the day, everyone has to go. And as life would have it, with god&#39;s grace, he also had the best death which was with the students at IIM Shillong. He dedicated his life to students,&quot; Ganguly added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"line-height: 23.1111106872559px; text-align: justify;\">(IANS)<\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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