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| A man in white shirt shooting selfie at 10 Rajaji Marg, where Abdul Kalam’s dead body was brought |
Staff correspondent, July 29, 2015, NewsCrunch
A photo of a young man, who took a selfie in front of a hearse carrying Dr Abdul Kalam’s body is going viral, leaving behind a trail of disgust.
The unidentified man in white shirt is standing in front of the ceremonially decked-up hearse bringing in Dr Kalam’s body to his official residence at 10, Rajaji Marg.
He is holding his camera in landscape position to immortalise the moment.
As the Telegraph reports he was not the only man with selfie on his mind; many people, who had gone to Rajaji Marg to pay their last respect to Dr Kalam, came back with selfies.
Some of them even requested visiting dignitaries for a selfie opportunity, Amit Shah and Sitaram Yechury were among those who obliged.
A soldier from Kerala approached Sitaram Yechury and took a selfie with his camera. Sitaram Yechury thought he was being asked to clear the road, when the soldier approached him. But the soldier said: "No comrade, just one selfie."
The practice of taking selfies at funerals was started by Barack Obama, who did that at Nelson Mandela's funeral service. He posed with British Prime Minister David Cameron and Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and clicked, setting of a new craze.
Selfie with Amit Shah at Dr Kalam's final ceremony at Delhi
Demented @LambaAlka shared her selfie smiling like an Idiot at Dr Kalam's place ,today RTs this moronic tweet-Pic 2 pic.twitter.com/oOZuFR5fiB— Sir Rowdy (@An_Indian__) July 29, 2015