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                       Rare Images of People's President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam's Family

We are welcomed by 88-year-old Muthu Meeran Labhai Maricar (second from left), the President's eldest brother. 

Maricar, clad in a traditional lungi and a genial air of familiarity, opens the door himself. 

"We are used to visitors," he says, nodding at a rickshaw man and his family who trail in behind us to see the 'President's brother.' 

Maricar asks all of us to sit. "This is a regular thing," he says, "This house has become a tourist spot after Kalam's rise to fame." 

"We are four brothers and one elder sister. One sister and two brothers are no more. I am the eldest and Kalam is the youngest," he says. "My elder son worked for the railways. He has now retired and settled down in Bangalore." 

Maricar has the option of staying with his famous brother in Delhi, but chooses not to. "I grow coconut trees, tamarind, drumstick. I have a small livestock farm. This is my town, my home. I am happy here".

Photograph: Kind courtesy: The President's family,IBNLive.COM,NDTV.COM

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