After your term as President has ended, you continue to criss-cross the nation. Do you find any change in the popular mood from the time you were Rashtrapati to now?
What I see is that the youth is restless. They want to contribute to make India great.
The time has come to launch a youth movement for national development. This, I am progressing.
India, 61: The icons that make India
What is your message on Independence Day?
Let us all, citizens of India resolve on the 61st Independence Day, 'I will work with integrity and succeed with integrity.'
Image: Indian students from the 124-year-old Anjuman-e-Islam school in Ahmedabad during the launch of a three-day Independence Day programme, August 13, 2008. Photograph: Sam Panthaky/AFP/Getty Images.
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