November 08

Kocheril Raman Narayanan was appointed vice president of India in 1992 and elected president in 1997. Narayanan was born on February 4, 1921, to a destitute Dalit family. Narayanan died in 2005, at the age of 85. He was afflicted with pneumonia and renal failure. He is and will be remembered as the President who never shied away from speaking his views and calling a spade a spade.
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