A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
Kalam, A. P. J. Abdul. Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India. Penguin Books, 2002, p. 10.
In the midst of the Vietnam War, U Thant, the Secretary General of the United Nations had tried to open back-channel communications to the North Vietnamese. Rusk came down hard on Thant, reminding him that he was only the Secretary General—the instrument of the states of the United Nations and was not a state himself and did not have the prerogatives of a state.
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist and politician who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He 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 Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.
