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
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
The product being internationally competitive it is able to service a large market with availability in time and state of the art performance at reduced costs per unit.
A teacher should have a creative mind.
All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.
The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.
Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
Work with integrity and succeed with integrity
We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
Nuclear power generation has been given a thrust by the use of uranium-based fuel which US is set to supply to India if the deal comes through. However, there would be a requirement for ten-fold increase in nuclear power generation even to attain a reasonable degree of energy self-sufficiency for our country.