A VISIONARY CALLED
A. P. J ABDUL KALAM
There was a boy who was studying in Schwartz High School. One day, he entered into a wrong classroom, where mathematics was being taught. The class teacher was Rama Krishna Iyer, who believed in old axiom spare the rod, spoil the child. He had no patience to excuse him. With his cane and in front of the students, he punished the boy holding his neck.
Then the boy took it as challenge and scored good marks in Mathematics in the final examinations. He was
Mr.A. P. J ABDUL KALAM.
A small town Rameshwaram near Chennai, saw the birth of a child in 15th of October, 1931 to Jaibulabdeen Markayar and his wife Ashiamma. They named the child as Avul Pakir Jaibulabdeen Abdul Kalam.
Kalam's Education:
Kalam studied in Rameshwaram elementary school until the completion of his primary education. His mother tongue is Tamil. He completed his high school is Schwartz High school. Then he continued his education in St. Joseph College in Tirchinapalli. Then he decided to go for
D. M. I. T in 1954, and got graduate Diploma. Kalam was always lucky in getting extordinary teachers throughout his student days.
Then he got job in Technical center as senior scientific Assistant on basic salary of Rs. 250 per month. In 1962 Kalam was posted to ADE, Bangalore. Here the performance of Kalam was appreciated by the then Defence Minister of India Mr.V.K Krishna. Later Abdul Kalam received a call from INCOSPAR, Mumbai. INCOSPAR is a committee of space research.
Then got training in NASA in America for six months. Then he returned back to India and joined ISRO. There he worked on SLVR project, our satellite launching vehicle & while he was working in ISRO, he was appreciated by the great scientist Dr. Sarabhai. The first trail SLV-3 was scheduled on 10th of August 1979. It was successful. The chairman of ISRO declared, "India is now ready to explore space". Prime minister of India Indira Gandhi appreciated for Kalam's work on SLV3 project.
Kalam got Padma Bhushan and later Padma Vibhushan on 26th January 1981. Later he worked on Intergrated Guided Missile Development Programme.
He decided to work on major projects Prithvi, Trishool, Akash, Nag and Agni. He got success in all these projects.
We the people of India, honoured overselves on 25th July, 2002, by electing our eleventh president, Shree A. P. J ABDUL KALAM, who vows that "he is first a human being then an Indian, and then a Rocket Engineer". He served as Indian president for five years from 2002 to 2007.
WINGS OF FIRE is his auto biography. Thus, Kalam is not only a president, but a Missile Man and Rocket engineer. Being a president, he activated our inertia and motivated us to reach our dream.
Entire human kind must remember following words of our beloved president
'When guns are silent, Flowers blossom on earth the fragrance engulf good souls, who created beautiful silence'.
That is the spirt of a True Indian "We live and let others also live".Kalam was a role model for students and young people.
On 27th July 2015, A.P.J Abdul Kalam the 'missile man' died from massive cardiac arrest during a lecture at the IBM in Shillong.
Let us salute the successful peace makers.
APJ Abdul Kalam is one of the most
influential personalities of India as a great scientist. He is a best thinker,
Inspiration and Youth Icon. We can call his life as an open book. There are some
of the interesting unknown facts of A P J Abdul Kalam most of us don’t know.
Let we have a look on it one by one,
1)
Reason behind APJ Abdul Kalam Long Hair style,
By birth Abdul Kalam has one half ear. So he used to
cover one of his ears with his hair.
2)
We all know that he used to be a paper boy but what
he did before circulating the paper is thought provoking
Kalam used to circulate paper while he was a child
for lining. But he used to circulate
paper only after he has read the whole
paper. His dedication towards gaining knowledge is ideal.
3)
Once DR.APJ Abdul Kalam rejected the suggestion to
put broken glass on the wall of a building that needed protection. Why?
This happened when DR. Kalam was with the DRDO (Defence
Research And Development Organization) and his team was discussing options to
secure the perimeter of a building that needed protection. DR. Kalam said "If we
Do that, birds will not be able to perch on the wall”
Because broken glass would be harmful for birds.
By this statement we
can say that Abdul Kalam was the lover of "Nature And Animals"
4)
He is the only person with maximum number of quotes
after
Swami Vivekananda
Some of the inspirational quotes of A.P.J Abdul Kalam which inspired me are,
·
“Suffering is the essence of SUCCESS”.
·
“Don’t take REST after your first victory because if
you fail in second, more LIPS are waiting to say that your first victory was
just LUCK”.
·
“It is very EASY to defeat someone, but it is very
HARD to win someone”.
·
“Your Best Teacher Is Your Last Mistake”
5)
Wake up at 4 AM by Abdul Kalam
Kalam used to wake up
at 4 AM, bath and then go to the mathematics class, which was taught by a
teacher who taught only session for five students.
Teacher put only one
condition that students has to bath and come to the class
