Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Biography

Real name                                               Abul pakir janulaabadin abdul kalam

Nickname                                                Missile Man, President of the public

Business                                                  Professor, Writer, Aerospace Scientist

Physical structure                             

Length (approx) to                                  cm - 163    M - 1.63       Ft inch - 5 '4 "

Weight                                                     60 kg

Eye color                                                 black

Hair color                                                black and white

personal life

Birth date                                                15 October 1931

Birthplace                                                Rameswaram, Ramanand District, Madras Presidency, British               

                                                                India  (Now Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India)

Death date                                               27 July 2015

Death place                                             Shillong, Meghalaya, India

Age (till death)                                       88 years

Cause of death                                        due to heart attack

Samadhi Sthal                                         Pei Karumbu, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India

Zodiac                                                    sign

Nationality                                              indian

Hometown                                              Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India

School                                                    Schwartz Higher Secondary School, Ramanathapuram, Tamil                                                                     Nadu, India

College                                                   University St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu,                                                                     India

                                                               Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet, Chennai, Tamil                                                                         Nadu, India

Educational                                           Qualification In 1954, graduated in Physics from St. Joseph's 

                                                              College, authorized from Madras University

                                                              Degree in Aerospace Engineering from Madras Institute of                                                                        Technology, 1960

Family father -                                        Jainulabdeen Marakayar (a boat owner and imam of the local                                                                    mosque)

                                                               APJ Abdul Kalam Azad with his father's painting

Mother-                                                 Ashima Jainulabdeen (Housewife)

Brother-                                                 Kasim Mohammad, Mustafa Kamal, Mohammad Muthu Mira  

                                                               Lebai Marikair

Sister-                                                    Asim Zohra (Elder Sister)

Religion                                                 islam

Caste                                                      tamil muslim

hobbies                                                   Playing , giving motivational lectures, taking walks, listening 

                                                               to Indian classical music

Awards 

1981:  Awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

1990: Awarded Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

1997: Awarded Bharat Ratna by the Government of India.

1998: Awarded Veer Savarkar Award by the Government of India.

2007: Awarded King Charles II Medal by Britain Royal Society.

2009: Awarded the Hoover Medal by the US ASME Foundation.

2013: Won Braun Prize awarded by the National Space Society.

2014: Awarded Doctor of Science degree by University of Edinburgh, UK.

Famous Books

 1998: India 2020

1999: Wings Of Fire

2002: Ignited Minds

2006: Indomitable Spirit

2012: Turning Points

Abdul Kalam's key statement 

• "A human being needs hardships, because they are necessary to enjoy success."

• Be dedicated to concrete achievements rather than artificial pleasures.

• If you want to shine like the sun, then first learn to burn like the sun.

• Poverty forced me to become a vegetarian, but in the end I started liking it.

• A good book equals a thousand friends, while a good friend equals a library.

• The day you change our signature autograph, let's say you succeeded.

• "The best people are not those who have waited for opportunities but rather those who have adopted, won and succeeded in opportunities."

• You cannot change your future but you can change your habits and certainly your habits will change your future.

• Salute your karma, the world will salute you, if you keep your karma contaminated, everyone will have to salute.

 Institutions named after Abdul Kalam

 30 July 2015: Uttar Pradesh State Government renamed Uttar Pradesh Technical University (UPTU) as "APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University".

31 July 2015: APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Travancore Institute of Digestive Diseases, Kerala

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4 August 2015: A new academic campus at Mahatma Gandhi University in Kerala is built in his name

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16 August 2015: The government of Puducherry announces that the newly inaugurated Science Center-cum-Planetarium will be named after former President APJ Abdul Kalam.

August 2015: Kerala Technological University was renamed APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University.

September 2015: Odisha national missile test site "Wheeler Island" is named after former President Abdul Kalam on "Abdul Kalam Island".

May 2017: New organism discovered by APJ Abdul Kalam at NASA named "APJ Abdul Kalam" after former President APJ Abdul Kalam. It is found only on the International Space Station in the form of bacteria. This bacteria is not found on earth. And likewise, researchers at NASA's most important laboratory, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), while working on an interplanetary trip, discovered a new bacterium and named it "Solibacillus kalamii".

Controversies 

• During his tenure as the President of India, he was criticized by Kalam for his inaction in deciding the fate of 20 out of 21 mercy petitions. He acted on only one mercy petition during his 5-year tenure, dismissing the petition of rapist Dhananjay Chatterjee, who was later hanged. Perhaps the most notable petition was that of Afzal Guru, who was sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of India in 2004. His death sentence was hanging in the balance due to pending action on his mercy petition.

• In the year 2005, Kalam made a controversial decision to impose President's rule in Bihar. Due to which he faced severe criticism.

• In 2011, the establishment of a nuclear power plant at Kudankulam was supported by APJ Abdul Kalam. Due to which the local people were angry with the establishment of nuclear power plant. Locals expressed their displeasure with APJ Abdul Kalam, condemning his act.

Favorite things                                                                  Preferred Topics Mathematics, Physics
Love affair and other information                                  Marital Status Single
                                                                                            Wife not applicable
                                                                                             No child

Money related details

Total assets 2,500 books, a harp, a wristwatch, CD player, a laptop, 6 shirts, 4 trousers, 3 suits and a pair of shoes, and his ancestral home in Rameswaram

A P J Abdul Kalam

 Some interesting information related to Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

He was born in a Tamil Muslim family in Rameswaram.

Kalam's father was the owner of a yacht that carried Hindu pilgrims between Rameswaram and Dhanushkodi (now uninhabited).

Kalam was the youngest of four brothers and a sister in his family.

His ancestors were rich merchants and zamindars and they mainly traded groceries in Sri Lanka.

His family was awarded the title of "Mara Kalam iyakkivar (wooden boat steerers)" for making pilgrims travel by boat from Sri Lanka to Pamban

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In the year 1914, the bridge from Mainland to Pbanan was opened, affecting the livelihood of his family.

From childhood, Kalam saw and felt poverty very closely, because his parents' income was not enough to nurture the whole family. Seeing the poverty of his family, Kalam started the work of distributing newspapers. He used to collect newspapers falling out of the Dhanushkodi Mail train and sell it to the passengers traveling in another train, and at the same time World War had started. Kalam did not give up his work even during the World War.

Kalam was just 10 when World War II was going on. In an interview, Kalam had revealed that he had felt the fire of the battle very closely, as the fire of the war slowly reached Rameswaram.

Since his childhood, he became fond of reading books, due to which he used to borrow books from his brother's friend and read them. Lender to kalam

In his school, Kalam was a mediocre student. However, his teachers described him as a bright and hardworking student with a strong desire to learn. APJ Abdul Kalam School

After graduating in physics from St. Joseph's College Tiruchirappalli, he went to the Madras Institute of Technology to study aerospace engineering. St. Joseph's College Tiruchirappalli

While working on a senior class project at MIT, the dean expressed dissatisfaction with his work, and warned Kalam that "if he does not finish the project for the next three days, he will be denied scholarship." Three days later the dean said to Kalam "I was quite surprised to see your work, you finished the work till the deadline to work." I was teaching you to work in difficulties. " APJ Abdul Kalam during his project work

Kalam had dreamed of becoming a fighter pilot. Although he was 9th in the Indian Air Force (IAF) qualifier, unfortunately he had only eight seats available and due to which he could not realize his dream of becoming a fighter pilot (Pilot). Abdul Kalam as fighter pilot

After graduating from MIT in 1960, he joined the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and started his career as a small hovercraft designer there. However, Kalam was not satisfied with working in the DRDO.

Being a member of the INCOSPAR committee, he worked under the famous space scientist Vikram Sarabhai. Abdul Kalam with scientist Vikram Sarabhai

In 1963, Kalam visited NASA's various space centers. Including Virginia: Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt (Maryland), Langley Research Center in Hampton; and Wallops Flight Facility.

At DRDO in the year 1965, Kalam started working independently on a rocket project.

In the year 1969, Kalam was transferred to the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), where he became the project director of India's first satellite launch vehicle (SLV-III) in the year 1980 and by him the project satellite "Rohini" which is on Earth Is very close to orbit, it was launched successfully. With project members of Kalam Vahan (SLV-III)

Between 1970 and 1990, Kalam put a lot of effort into developing the Polar Satellite Launch Whackle (PSLV) and (SLV-3) projects, both of which proved successful. Abdul Kalam with Satish Dhawan

King Ramanna invited Kalam to conduct India's first nuclear test (Smiling Buddha), but for some reason Kalam could not participate in this test. During the Kalam Smiling Buddha

In the 1970s, Kalam used the SLV-3 program to develop ballistic missiles. Kalam then directed two projects: - Project Devil and Project Voliant. At the same time, the then Union Cabinet rejected two projects, when Indira Gandhi (the then Prime Minister of India) secretly allocated funds to these projects. Abdul Kalam with Indira Gandhi

In the year 1980, in view of Kalam's educational leadership and research work, it was proposed by the government to employ the Kalam Advanced Missile Program under his direction.

Venkataraman (then Defense Minister) appointed Kalam as the Chief Executive of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP) and allocated Rs 388 crore for the mission. Along with this, Kalam was instrumental in developing many successful missiles including Mission Agni and Mission Prithvi.

From July 1992 to December 1999, Kalam served as the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister and Secretary to DRDO. During this period he conducted the Pokhran-2 nuclear test, in which Kalam played an important political and technical role with Atal Bihari Vajpayee (the then Prime Minister of India).

In the year 1990, a media coverage described Kalam as India's most skilled nuclear scientist, due to which he is called as "Missile Man". Abdul kalam the missile man

In 1998, Kalam developed a low-cost coronary stent in collaboration with cardiologist Soma Raju and named it "Kalam-Raju Stent". In the year 2012, the two also invented a tablet computer called "Kalam-Raju Tablet" for health care in rural areas.

In the year 2002, Abdul Kalam took over as the 11th President of India after the tenure of former President of India KR Narayanan. Abdul Kalam swearing

APJ Abdul Kalam became the third President of India, who was awarded the Bharat Ratna before becoming President. Before him, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1954) and Dr. Zakir Hussain (1963) received the Bharat Ratna and sworn in as President.

Along with being a scientist, Dr. Kalam is the first such unmarried Indian. Whose residence became "Rashtrapati Bhavan". Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan

During his residency at Rashtrapati Bhavan, he said that "he will pay for his meals himself." At the same time, General KS Dogra (former military secretary APJ Abdul Kalam) recalled an incident that "his relatives first came to meet him when he became president." He refused to take any special arrangement from Rashtrapati Bhavan. Traveling around Delhi with his family, he hired a small general sleeper class bus to roam around and paid for it by Kalam. However, the Rashtrapati Bhavan has a fleet of vehicles, a stables, clubs, hospitals, a golf course for the use of the President and his family, which Kalam never used. His only entertainment was his books, which he used to read while walking in the Mughal Gardens.

As the President of India (during his tenure), the media affectionately called him "People's President". Abdul Kalam "People's President"

In September 2003, during an interactive session at PGI Chandigarh, he supported the need for Uniform Civil Code in India.

In 2011, a Hindi film "I Am Kalam" was released, portraying Kalam as a positive influence on a poor Rajasthani boy named 'Chhotu'.

On 27 July 2015, at the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, when he was addressing the gathering on the topic of "Creating a Livable Planet Earth", he suddenly collapsed in just a fifth minute of his address (6:35 pm Indian time). When he was taken to the nearby Bethany Hospital, his pulse was stunted and no signs of his body coming to life were reflected. He was declared dead on the same day around 7:45 pm. According to sources, his last words were as follows: - "Funny guy! Are you doing well? " Which he told his assistant Srijanpal Singh.

Condoling the death of Dr. Abdul Kalam, entire India paid homage to him on social media. The Government of India declared a seven-day state mourning for this tragic event. Condoling his death, Pranab Mukherjee (the then President of India), Hamid Ansari (the then Vice President of India) and Rajnath Singh (the current Home Minister of India) and others offered their deepest condolences.

On 30 July 2015, the last action was performed with full state honors at Pei Karumbu Ground in Rameswaram. More than 3.5 lakh people participated in the last action including Narendra Modi (Indian Prime Minister), Rahul Gandhi, the Governor of Tamil Nadu and the Chief Ministers of Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh on his last action.

On 27 July 2017, Narendra Modi (Indian Prime Minister) unveiled a memorial named after Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam on the "Abdul Kalam National Memorial" island of Pei Karumbu Rameswaram, built by DRDO. "Abdul Kalam National Memorial"

Kalam was very fond of his mother, and expressed his affection for his mother in a poem he wrote in his autobiography, "Wings of Fire":