SIR APJ ABDUL KALAM - ROLE MODEL TO STUDENTS




IF YOU WANT TO SHINE LIKE A SUN FIRST BURN LIKE A SUN



APJ ABDUL KALAM IS AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM.   BORN IN A TAMIL FAMILY ON 15 OCTOBER 1931 HE WAS THE YOUNGEST OF THE FIVE SIBLINGS,  HIS FATHER A P JAINULABDEEN WAS THE IMAM OF A MOSQUE IN HIS HOMETOWN OF RAMESHWARAM.  HIS FATHER WOULD SIT WITH THE  HEAD PRIEST OF RAMANATHASWAMY HINDU TEMPLE AND A CHURCH PRIEST WITH HOT TEA AND DISCUSS ON VARIOUS ISSUES.  THIS MADE YOUNG KALAM BELIEVE AND RESPECT ALL RELIGION .  

ABDUL KALAM WAS FOND OF SAYING  "FOR GREAT MEN, RELIGION IS A WAY OF MAKING FRIENDS; SMALL PEOPLE MAKE RELIGION A FIGHTING TOOL."


ABDUL KALAM LIVED A SIMPLE LIFESTYLE. DAILY NAMAZ AND FASTING DURING RAMADAN WERE INTEGRAL IN HIS LIFE.  IN ADDITION TO READING QURAN, HE ALSO LEARNT SANSKRIT, READ BHAGAVAD GITA, WROTE TAMIL POETRY, PLAYED VEENA, LISTENED TO CARNATIC DEVOTIONAL MUSIC AND HE WAS A VEGETARIAN.   HE GRADUATED FROM MADRAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY,   HE WANTED TO BECOME A FIGHTER PILOT BUT HE NARROWLY MISSED ACHIEVING HIS DREAM IN THE IAF.  KALAM BECAME A MEMBER OF DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICE AND LATER GOT TRANSFERRED TO ISRO WHERE HE WORKED ON A ROCKET PROJECT.   FINALLY HE WAS CALLED AS THE COUNTRY's  BEST KNOWN NUCLEUR SCIENTIST.  HE QUOTED "IF YOU FAIL NEVER GIVE UP BECAUSE FAIL MEANS FIRST ATTEMPT IN LEARNING."  

ABDUL KALAM SERVED AS THE 11TH PRESIDENT OF INDIA FROM 25 JULY 2002 TO 25 JULY 2007.  THE MASSES AFFECTIONATELY CALLED HIM "PEOPLE's PRESIDENT". HIS POSSESSIONS WERE HIS WRITINGS ; HIS BOOKS,  DOCUMENTARIES , POPULAR CULTURE, AWARDS AND HONOURS.  HE RECEIVED ALL THE HIGHEST AWARDS.  HIS WRITINGS SUCH AS WINGS OF FIRE, IGNITED MINDS, MISSION INDIA, TARGET 3 BILLION , INDIA 2020 AND MANY MORE ARE READ AND INSPIRED BY MILLIONS AROUND THE WORLD.  HE COLLAPSED WHILE DELIVERING A LECTURE AT THE INDIAN INSTITUE OF MANAGEMENT SHILLONG AND HIS LAST WORDS WERE "FUNNY GUY, ARE YOU DOING WELL".  

MANY EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS, PLANETARIUM , ISLAND, ROAD AND OTHER LOCATIONS ARE NAMED AFTER ABDUL KALAM IN HIS MEMORY.  STUDENTS SEE UPON HIM AS THEIR ROLE MODEL AND ARE INSPIRED BY HIS QUOTES AND WRITINGS.




 

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