Wearing a 'gamcha', Pranab Mukherjee used to walk 2 km barefoot to school in monsoon: Friend

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...