Dr Kalam's question receives overwhelming response

Kolkata, Jul 26 (UNI) Former President APJ Abdul Kalam's recent question-- " What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?" -drew nearly 30,000 responses from across India.

Propelled by increasing challenge of global terrorism Dr Kalam, the icon of India's youth, put forth his question on an open internet forum- Yahoo!India Answers, following which Dr Kalam received close overwhelming responses. Among these 15,000 responses were high school children.

Picking out the winning response he said, ''Of the shortlist put together by the Yahoo!India editorial team, I have selected two answers by Sugato Mitra and Karthik Durairajan as first and second, in that order.'' ''To a certain extent, possible solutions emerge from a combination of these two answers,'' he opined.

The celebrity icon stated,''I have selected these answers from the participants based on their depth of thinking and action oriented suggestions.'' The thought provoking question encouraged thousands of netizens to share their views on the single innovative platform.

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