A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalamwas the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisationand Indian Space Research Organisationand was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CountryIndia
Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
There has to be a global mission of human progress.
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.