Since independence, India has sought in various ways, self-realization, adulation, and success. This is the story of Kalam's own rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of AGNI, TRISHUL, and NAG missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. As chief of the country's defence research and development programmer, Kalam demonstrated a great, great potential for dynamics and innovations that existed in a seemingly moribund research establishment. He had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, Bharat Ratna. His father was also imam of the small mosque in Rameswaram. Kalam was born on October 15, 1931, the son of a little educated boat owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. Outside of the major Indian languages, Wings of Fire was translated into Chinese (titled Huo Yi, by Ji Peng), and into French by various translators. The autobiography first published in English, has so far been translated and published in 13 languages including Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia, Marathi, and Gujarati. During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the DRDO to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program, with particular successes in thermonuclear weapons development culminating in the operation Smiling Buddha and an ICBM Agni. He moved to ISRO and helped establish the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. Kalam started his career, after graduating from Aerospace engineering at Madras Institute of Technology, at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and was assigned to build a hovercraft prototype. In the autobiography, Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs. Kalam - Pg.Wings of Fire (1999), is the autobiography of the Missile Man of India and President of India, Dr.
To understand him well, it also contains narrations of a number of incidents and events of his life, that would lead to holistic understanding about him.ġ0. This will help the readers to understand the intricacies of his thinking and how he was guided for a mission in his life. In this book, we have made a solemn endeavour to read his mind, how he thought at every turn of his life. He was a widely read man, and turned out to be a writer with several popular & bestseller books to his credit. As he toured different parts of the country and world, he made bid to learn, and whenever he had a doubt, he would consult books and people to resolve it. He did not allow anything to escape his notice, and he wanted to know everything. He felt home with science as well as social subjects. He commanded subjects beyond his realm of work.
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