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India Friday attacked developed countries for using environmental and labor reasons as tools to protect their own markets and asked them to transfer technology freely to third world countries. Inaugurating the silver jubilee celebrations of the Energy Research Institute of the Tata Group, President Kocheril Raman Narayanan said that developed countries are \"now taking advantage of environmental issues to protect their own markets from the products of developing countries.\"

Indian President Kocheril Raman Narayanan Tuesday appealed for equality among all countries in the world. In an address to the nation on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Republic Day, Narayanan said equality \"does mean that no nation or continent can seek overlordship over others claiming political, economic, technological or strategic superiority.\" On India's relations with neighboring China, Narayanan said: \" We celebrate this year the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations with China, we wish that country and its people every happiness.\"

FORMER president K.R. [Kocheril Raman Narayanan] was the first \"untouchable\" from India's pernicious caste system to occupy the country's highest office. Mr Narayanan's rise to the top was remarkable in a country where \"untouchables\", now known as \"Dalits\", are the lowest in society, having faced ridicule and hostility for centuries. While most Dalits remain poor, uneducated and underemployed, Mr Narayanan was a symbol of how crushing disadvantages can be overcome with luck and determination.

Mr. [Kocheril Raman Narayanan], an academic, administrator, author, journalist, cabinet minister, politician and diplomat, also served as vice president for five years. While other Dalits have risen to be senior cabinet ministers, top judges and high-ranking military officers, Mr. Narayanan was arguably India's most powerful symbol that the humiliations of the caste system could be overcome. After returning to India in 1949 he joined the Indian Foreign Service and served in the Indian Embassies in Burma, Japan, Britain, Australia, Vietnam, Thailand and Pakistan. In 1976, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi chose Mr. Narayanan, who spoke Chinese, to be the first Indian ambassador to Beijing in 15 years. He also served as ambassador to the United States.

K.R. [Kocheril Raman Narayanan], a former president of India who brought a deeper meaning to the largely ceremonial position when he rose from the bottom of the country's ancient caste system to become the first \"untouchable\" to hold the office, has died. He was 85. During his presidency, which ended in 2002, the soft-spoken Narayanan showed he wasn't afraid to take a stand. He broke from precedent twice to defy the government that appointed him, refusing to sack opposition-ruled state administrations. (The prime minister is the head of India's government.) As India's 10th president, Narayanan avoided criticizing caste discrimination and emphasized the \"slow but steady movement of the lower classes.\" Discrimination based on social caste was barred in 1950.

KOCHERIL Raman Narayanan rose from the lowest possible birth to the highest possible constitutional job in India, an improbable journey that took him through the seething prejudices of a 5000- year-old caste system that continues to define and limit the lives of India's low-caste majority. From a hut in the village of Uzhavoor in the Kottayam district of Kerala, in southern India, K. R. Narayanan rose to become the occupant of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the presidential palace, with its tennis courts, renowned Mogul gardens, golf course, polo ground, cricket pitch and 340 rooms. Narayanan broke with convention when, as president, he gave a television interview in which his distaste for caste and other social prejudice was clearly displayed. India, he said, waited impatiently for economic equality and social justice. He is survived by his wife and their two daughters.

Kocheril Raman Narayanan was born in a thatched hut at the village of Uzhavoor in Kottayam district, Kerala, on October 27 1920. He was the fourth of seven children of a physician who practised herbal medicine. He took a First in English Literature at the University of Travancore and then secured a temporary post as a lecturer at University College, Trivandrum, in 1943. Narayanan spent a year working as a journalist, but in 1945 he travelled to England, where he studied political science under Harold Laski at the LSE and worked as the London correspondent of the Social Welfare Weekly, based in Bombay.

[Kocheril Raman Narayanan]'s second radical move was to return for reconsideration the Gujral's Cabinet's advice to dismiss the Kalyan Singh government in UP and the Vajpayee government's recommendation to sack the Rabri regime in Bihar in 1998.