Abdul Kalam
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...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CityRameswaram, India
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.
There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.
When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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.