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Pranab Mukherjee walked 2 km barefoot to school, says longtime friend
Updated On: 02 September, 2020 10:43 AM IST | | PTI
"Mukhopadhyay said that his friend used to work as a private tutor at that time as he had decided not to take money from his father while pursuing his masters degree in Kolkata. "
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Pranab Mukherjee, who headed several key ministries before becoming the President, used to walk two kilometres barefoot while going to a village school in West Bengal's Birbhum district wearing a 'gamcha' (traditional towel) during the monsoon in the 1940s, his friend Prof Amal Kumar Mukhopadhyay said.
Reminiscing his association with Mukherjee for nearly seven decades since they were admitted to a college in the district in 1952, the eminent academician rued that he could not fulfil his friend's wish to write a biography of him.
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