Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was a prominent
Scientist and 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was also known as
the Missile, ISRO Man of India
A.P.J Abdul
Kalam Biography:
➦“DR. A.P.J ABDUL KALAM” was a prominent Scientist and 11th president of India from
2002 to 2007. He was also known as the Missile, ISRO Man of India
Abul Pakir Jainul Abedeen Abdul
Kalam, better known as A.P.J Abdul Kalam, who was the 11th president of India,
➦He was born on 15th October 1931 in a poor Tamil Muslim family in Rameswaram. From a teen age, he had to fight with poverty for his family and his own education.
His career started by selling the
newspaper. He was admitted to Tiruchirapalli St Joseph College and also was
graduated from there.
➦He was very heedful in studies from
childhood but after graduation, he lost interest in physics and he deeply
regretted it for the next 4 years. After this listening to his inner voice, he
decided to do an engineering course.
➦In 1995 his name appeared in the
merit list of Madras Institute of Technology but the fee for admission was one
thousand rupees.
➦At that time he had not that much
money. But his mother and sister arranged that money by selling their gold
jewelry and A.p. j Abdul Kalam was admitted in engineering.
➦His interest in studies increased
after seeing the faith of his family members in his studies.
➦After noticing his
deep interest in some projects in college, a professor gave him the
responsibility for a senior class project. But after noticing no progress in
that work his professor told him "complete it within 3 days or your
scholarship will be taken back".
➦At last, kalam successfully finished
that project and also made his professor happy.
After this a new chapter started in
his life, He got chances to work in the Air Force and as a directorate of
technical development production in Defence.
➦He decided to try for both. He got
interview calls from Dehradun for Air Force and from Delhi for defense.
After staying in Delhi for one week
he gave an interview for defense and then he came to Dehradun for air force
interview. There he stood 9th out of 25 people.
➦But first 8 candidates were
selected. And so he lost his opportunity to become a fighter pilot.
➦He became as depressed as he was
unable to make his dream come true.
After this, he went to Hrishikesh
and there he met with Swami Sivananda and expressed to him about his dreams,
wishes, depression, and grief.
➦After listening to everything
Swamiji told him, "Desire when it stems from the heart and spirit when it
is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy.
This vitality is discharged into the
ether every night, as the mind falls into the rest state.
Every morning it comes back to the
cognizant state strengthened with the enormous flows.
➦That which has been imaged will
without a doubt and positively be showed.
After this, he went to Delhi and
started to work as a senior scientist in the Indian Defence Ministry.
➦Then he was transferred to Indian
space research organization ISRO in 1969 and started to work as the head of the
project of making a satellite named Slv iii.
But in 1979 when the SLV III was
sent to space, it crashed just after 317 seconds. And for that Abdul Kalam had
to face a critical time.
➦He was very depressed then and feels
very weak mentally.
After this in a press conference
when Abdul Kalam was asked about the failure of the satellite mission,
professor Satis Dhawan took the microphone from him and answered all the
questions from the media.
➦And he replied the entire question
from media in conference and he told that this mission is big and challenging
mission, we will find out the fault and we will correct it out internally and
also he stated, "I have confidence and I assure you all guys we will send
our another satellite very soon within 1 year.
➦In later years when Kalam was
preparing to construct a new satellite, a lot of people were making him
remember about the failure of the SLV III,
But he kept Faith in himself and
focused only on his own work.
On 18th July 1980 Rohini satellite
was launched and it became successful to reach the orbit.
➦It took kalam to the peak of success.
He wanted to work in many projects after this but those were rejected by the
cabinet.
In 1998 he did some successful
research in atomic science. At that time, president Atal Bihari Vajpai
wanted to give him his Ministerial post but Kalam rejected that.
➦But in future, he was honored by
becoming the 11th president of India.
As a president, he was honored as
well as criticized.
➦He first advised banning the Iftar
party in Rashtrapati Bhaban. Later when the reason became clear it was that
approximately 22lakh rupees have been spent for the Iftar party every year in
Rashtra-Pati Bhawan.
➦So he ordered the money should be
sent for the welfare of orphanages to bought them food dress and blankets.
➦He also used to donate to orphanages
from his own savings. In 2007 he left the president ship with honor on 27th
July 2015 during giving a speech in IIM SHILONG on "creating livable
planet earth"
➦He passed away due to massive
cardiac arrest. According to reports, his last words told to his assistant
Srijan Pal Singh were "funny guy! Are you doing well?".
➦At last, I want to finish this with
one of my favorite quotes of Abdul Kalam, He Said: "Man Needs His
Difficulties Because They Are Necessary To Enjoy Success".
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