Biography of APJ Abdul Kalam
Introduction:
The great scientist, engineer, teacher and eleventh
President of the Republic of India, Marhol Abul Pakir Janulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Masoudi was one of the most popular presidents of the country due to his
scholarly, scientific vision, foresight, writing ability and soft nature. Dr.
Kalam's life from a fisherman family of Tamil Nadu to the chair of the President of the country is exciting. Little is known that he was also a good
musician and poet.
Childhood
of Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam:
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam hailed from Rameswaram in
Tamil Nadu. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's full name was Avul Pakir Zainulbadin Abdul
Kalam. He was born into a Tamil Muslim family living in Rameswaram. His
father's name was Zainulbadin and he was the Imam of a mosque and the owner of
a village. His mother's name was Asiamma, who was a housewife.
In childhood, Abdul Kalam used to bring Dhanushkowda
from Rameshwam to Hindu people from his father's feet. Kalam had three elder
brothers and a sister. He used to send some money to his family throughout his
life. You will be surprised to know that this man who loves technology had
never bought a TV in Jingdi.
Dr.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's Early Education:
When Abdul Kalam was born, his family was suffering
from poverty. Because of this, at a very young age, Abdul Kalam had to work in
the morning selling newspapers. Abdul Kalam was an ordinary student in reading,
his marks in school were also ordinary but he was always appreciated by the
teachers that he is a very hard-working student. He always worked on
mathematics for hours.
After completing his high school from Swartz High
School, he moved to Tiruchirappalli and graduated from Physics in 1954 at St.
Joseph's College. In 1955, he joined the Madras Institute of Technology in
Madras to do aerospace engineering. During this course, Kalam was working on a
project and his college president did not like his work and told Kalam that if
your project is not completed in the next three days, then your scholarship
will be withdrawn.
No
Selection in the Air Force:
Abdul Kalam had a great desire to join the Indian
Air Force but he could not be selected for just one place. He was ninth in the
selection list but only the top eight candidates were needed for the Air Force.
After completing his studies from Madras Institute of Technology, Kalam joined
the Aeronautical development establishment as a scientist.
In the aeronautical development establishment, Kalam
started his career with a small hovercraft there. After working there for a few
years, Kalam joined ISRO, the Indian Space Research Organization. Let us tell
you that in 1969, Abdul Kalam was sent to ISRO as the director of the country's
first space launch vehicle project. The Indian Space Research Organization was
started at that time.
India's
first Satellite Rohini:
At that time, Abdul Kalam and his fellow scientists
carried the bicycles and bullock carts required to build rockets and space
vehicles. He directed the country's first ballot missile project. He achieved a
major success in 1980 when he successfully sent a satellite named Rohini to the
Earth's Orbit. The then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was greatly impressed by
the success of Kalam's Rohini satellite and arranged secret funding for Kalam's
next project, Advance and Guided Missile. In 1982, he joined DRDO and worked on
this project. Today, you will hear about the missiles like Agni, Prithvi and
Bramos. Apart from this, all these missiles like Tactical Missiles, Nag, Akash
and Trishul were started by Dr. APJ Kalam.
Operation
Shakti was successful:
The day of 11-13 May 1998 became one of the biggest
days in the history of India. On that day, India surprised the whole world
including the US by conducting a successful nuclear test in Pokhran. Let us
tell you that there were many obstacles in front of India in conducting nuclear
test, even the US spy satellites were keeping an eye on India, but these Dr.
A.P.J. It was Abdul Kalam's knowledge that America did not let the whole world
know about the India nuclear test.
Abdul Kalam was the principal scientific advisor to
the Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, before conducting nuclear
tests at that time. Although the Prime Minister had offered Kalam Saheb to
become a minister but he refused because his plan was something else. In March
1998, Abdul Kalam Saheb met the PM with the entire project of Atomic and gave
him complete information about the Nuclear Missile Program. At that meeting,
the PM approved the launch of Kalam Saheb's Nuclear Project and that mission
was named "Operation Shakti". Along with this, the code name of Kalam
Saheb was also kept, which was "Major Prithviraj"
Made
India Self-sufficient:
At that time, a big challenge for India to make the
operation power successful was to stay away from the eyes of the American
satellite. For this, Kalam Saheb worked overnight. Pokhran used other routes to
come and go. In order to mislead the US satellite, Kalam Saheb encouraged the
activities of the army in an area far from Pokhran. Along with this, he did
many such things that did not make American Satellite even aware. On May 11,
1998, nuclear tests were conducted for the first time in Pokhran and twice more
on May 13, but till then the whole world including America did not know
anything about it. Abdul Kalam had become the Missile Man of India by the time
the world got its news after the nuclear test was successful.
Awards,
Books & Inspirations:
He received several awards like Padmabhushan (1981),
Padma Vibhushan (1990) and along with him, Bharat Ratna (1997), India's largest
civilian award. After this, he pursued science as well as art and culture. He
repeatedly inspired children by going to school colleges. He also wrote several
books. Which includes many books like Wings of Fire, India 2020, APJ Abdul
Kalam My Journey. His books became famous worldwide and were also translated
into many Indian languages.
Conclusion:
He died on 27 July 2015 in Shillong. Even before his
death, he was giving knowledge and inspiration to children in a college. He
died but his inspirations, his proverbs will continue to inspire the future of
India. Hearing their saying, even today, the thinking of new youth changes and
they too start dreaming of achieving success like them.
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