Sharing the story of APJ Abdul Kalam. Abdul Kalam was a great scientist. Who also a great teacher and an author. Kalam was elected as the 11th president of India in 2002 with the support of both the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the then-opposition Indian National Congress. Widely referred to as the "People's President",[6] he returned to his civilian life of education, writing and public service after a single term. He was a recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. While delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management Shillong, Kalam collapsed and died from an apparent cardiac arrest on 27 July 2015, aged 83.[7] Thousands, including national-level dignitaries, attended the funeral ceremony held in his hometown of Rameswaram, where he was buried with full state honours. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931, to a Tamil Muslim family in the pilgrimage centre of Rameswaram on Pamban Island, then in the Madras Presidency and now in the State of Tamil Nadu. His father Jainulabdeen Marakayar was a boat owner and imam of a local mosque;[9] his mother Ashiamma was a housewife.[10][11][12][13] His father owned a ferry that took Hindu pilgrims back and forth between Rameswaram and the now uninhabited Dhanushkodi.[14][15] Kalam was the youngest of four brothers and one sister in his family.[16][17][18] His ancestors had been wealthy Marakayar traders and landowners, with numerous properties and large tracts of land. Marakayar are a Muslim ethnic group found in coastal Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka who claim descent from Arab traders and local women. The family business had involved trading groceries between the mainland and the island and to and from Sri Lanka, as well as ferrying pilgrims between the mainland and Pamban. With the opening of the Pamban Bridge to the mainland in 1914, however, the businesses failed and the family fortune and properties were lost by the 1920s, apart from the ancestral home. The family was poverty-stricken by the time Kalam was born. As a young boy he had to sell newspapers to add to the family's meager income. In his school years, Kalam had average grades but was described as a bright and hardworking student who had a strong desire to learn. He spent hours on his studies, especially Mathematics.[21] After completing his education at the Schwartz Higher Secondary School, Ramanathapuram, Kalam went on to attend Saint Joseph's College, Tiruchirappalli, then affiliated with the University of Madras, from where he graduated in physics in 1954.[22] He moved to Madras in 1955 to study aerospace engineering in Madras Institute of Technology.[13] While Kalam was working on a senior class project, the Dean was dissatisfied with his lack of progress and threatened to revoke his scholarship unless the project was finished within the next three days. Kalam met the deadline, impressing the Dean, who later said to him, "I was putting you under

1. APJ ABDUL KALAM
MISSILE MAN

2. APJ ABDUL KALAM
KAHANI KALAM KI

3. PERSONAL DETAILS
• BORN :- 15 October 1931
• FULL NAME :- AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM
• He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, and studied physics
and aerospace engineering.
• He came to be known as the 'Missile Man of India' for his work on the
development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.
• In 2002, Kalam became the 11th President of India.
• DEATH :- 27 JULY 2015

4. AWARDED WITH
IEEE Honorary Membership, IEEE in 2011
Doctor of Engineering, University of Waterloo in 2010
Hoover Medal ASME Foundation, USA in 2009
International von Kármán Wings Award, California Institute of
Technology, USA in 2009
Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa), Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore in 2008
King Charles II Medal Royal Society, UK in 2007
Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK in
2007
Ramanujan Award, Alwars Research Centre, Chennai in 2000
Veer Savarkar Award, Government of India in 1998
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration, Government of India in
1997
Bharat Ratna, Government of India in 1997

5. MISSILE MAN
■ Kalam earned a degree in aeronautical engineering from the Madras
Institute of Technology and in 1958 joined the Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO).
■ He soon moved to the Indian Space Research Organisation, where he was
project director of the SLV-III, India’s first indigenously designed and
produced satellite launch vehicle. Rejoining DRDO in 1982, Kalam planned
the program that produced a number of successful missiles, which helped
earned him the nickname “Missile Man.”

6. JOURNEY AND ACHIEVEMENTS AS A
SCIENTIST
• After completing his graduation in 1960, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam joined as a scientist in Defence Research and
Development Organisation’s Aeronautical Development Establishment.
• At the very start of his career, he designed a small helicopter for the Indian army.
• He also worked under the renowned scientist Vikram Sarabhai as a part of the committee of INCOSPAR.
• From 1963 to 1964, he visited the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the Wallops Flight
Facility located at the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Langley Research Center of NASA situated at
Hampton, Virginia.
• Dr. Kalam’s efforts in developing the projects on SLV-III and Polar SLV from 1970s to 1990s proved to be
successful.
• Dr. Kalam directed Project Valiant and Project Devil that aimed at developing ballistic missiles using the
technology of the SLV programme that was a success. It is known that the then
• Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, using her discretionary powers, allotted secret funds when these aerospace
projects were disapproved by the Union Cabinet.
• Dr. Kalam and Dr. V.S. Arunachalam, on the proposal of the then Defense Minister R. Venkataraman, worked on

7. DOCUMENTARIES AND BOOKS BY DR. KALAM
• Ignited minds: unleashing the power within india
• Inspiring thoughts
• Indomitable spirit
• The luminous sparks
• Turning points: A journey through challenges
• My journey: transforming dreams into actions
• Developments in fluid mechanics and space technology, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam and
roddam narasimha
• India 2020: A vision for the new millennium, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam and Y.S. Rajan.
• Wings of fire: an autobiography, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam and arun tiwari.
• Mission india, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam.
• Envisioning an empowered nation, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam and A. Sivathanu pillai.
• You are born to blossom: take my journey beyond, by dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam and arun
tiwari.

8. BIOGRAPHIES
• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: The Visionary of India, by K.
Bhushan and G. Katyal.
• Eternal Quest: Life and Times of Dr. Kalam, written by S.
Chandra.
• President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, written by R.K. Pruthi.
• My Days with Mahatma Abdul Kalam, written by Fr. A.K.
George.
• A Little Dream, a documentary film by P. Dhanapal,
Minveli Media Works Private Limited.
• The Kalam Effect: My Years with the President, written
by P.M. Nair.

9. BIOGRAPHY IN GUJARATI
• અવુલ પાકિર જૈનુલાકદિન અદિુલ િલામ (જન્મ : ૧૫ ઓક્ટોબર ૧૯૩૧, રામેશ્વરમ; મૃત્યુ: ૨7 જુલાઇ ૨૦૧૫,
કિલોોંગ) જેઓ ડો.એ.પી.જે.અદિુલ િલામ તરીિે ઓળખાય છે, તેઓશ્રી ભારતના રાષ્ટ્રપકત પિે ઇ. સ. ૨૦૦૨થી
૨૦૦૭ સુધી કબરાજમાન હતા. તેમની અનોખી િાયયપધ્ધતીને િારણે તેઓ ખુબ પ્રખ્યાત થયા અને
"જનસામાન્યનાોં રાષ્ટ્રપકત" તરીિે લોિચાહના મેળવી. અદિુલ િલામે ભૌકતિકવજ્ઞાનનો અભ્યાસ સેંટ જોસેફ
િોલેજ, કતરુકચરાપલ્લી અને એરોસ્પેસ ઇજનેરીનો અભ્યાસ મદ્રાસ ઇકન્સ્ટટ્યટ ઓફ ટેિનોલોજી(MIT), ચેન્નઇ
ખાતેથી િયો હતો. તેઓ ભારતના એિ માત્ર અકવવાકહત, વૈજ્ઞાકનિ રાષ્ટ્રપકત હતા.
• રાષ્ટ્રપકત બન્યા પહેલા તેમણે એરોસ્પેસ ઇજનેર તરીિે સરોંક્ષણ અને કવિાસ સોંગઠન (ડી.આર.ડી.ઓ) અને
ભારતીય અોંતકરક્ષ અનુસોંધાન સોંગઠન (ઇસરો) ખાતે િામ િયુય હતુોં.

10. BIOGRAPHY OF APJ ABDUL KALAM