Pratibha Patil
Apr 11 2009, Sreelata Yellamrazu

The Indian team won in ecstatic fashion in New Zealand in forty-one years. But they would not have expected heartiest congratulations from this quarter.
Indian President Pratibha Patil sent a congratulatory message to the team in which she...

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