Book Review of You Are Born To Blossom Book by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

2. Name: Deepak D. Upadhyhay
Temp ID: T06D16MCA044
MCA Sem.-3

3. Book Name
You Are Born To Blossom

4. Basic Information about Book
• This book published in 2008 by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
& Arun K Tiwari
• Dr. Kalam says of these book that is “Man needs
difficulties in life because they are necessary to
enjoy the success.”

5. Basic Points of Book
• This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes information and
Communication Technology mining the rural talent.
• This book present Dr. Kalam's dream of schools in India at year 2020, he
seen the new future of teaching with using technology to connecting
Teachers, Students & Communities.
• He also makes a clarion call to accelerate the process of societal
transformation. This would involve raising the standards of governance and
safeguarding the sanctity of public institutions.

6. About Author
• Bharat Ratna Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, generally known as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was the 11th
President of India (2002-2007). He was elected against Lakshmi Sehgal in 2002 and had support from both the
Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress, the two leading parties of Indian politics. By
profession he was a scientist and an administrator in India. He worked with Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISRO) and Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as an aerospace engineer
before becoming the President of India. His work on the development of launch vehicle and ballistic missile
technology had earned him the name of the 'Missile Man of India'.
• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore; the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong.
• In his book 'India 2020', he recommended plans to make the nation a fully developed one by the year 2020. His
interactions with the student community and his motivational speeches made him quite popular among the
youth. In 2011, he launched a mission called 'What Can I Give Movement' aimed at the youth of India, which
focused on defeating corruption in the country.

7. This book has 8 different topics like
1. The Wooing of Grain and Clay
2. In the Childhood Garden
3. The Treble of Heaven’s Harmony
4. Living is Doing
5. Flowering of the Mind
6. Nurturing a Garden
7. Specks in Brownian Motion
8. Education as a Spiritual Journey

8. • The examples that are given in this book is the real life story about Albert
Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac Newton, Franklin, Bill Gates, CV Raman,
Charles Darwin their life, how they took decision, what is their success story..
everything would teach you something, that will definitely going to help you in
future.
• Our Education system should re-align itself at the earliest to meet the needs
of the present day challenges and be fully geared to participate in societal
transformation through innovation, which is the key to competitiveness.

9. • When you do something, you should burn yourself completely , like a good
bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
•A nation is great not because a few people are great, but because everyone in
the nation is great. He visualize a Web of Life holding together and feeding the
grass-root of our Society with nutrients of our technological strength and
industrial prosperity.
• Do not set goal by what people consider important. Only you know what is
best for you.

10. • Amazingly written much hopes of creative awareness about the strengths of
knowledge.
• It refurbish the missing link in the modus operation of the idea lists and the
global in achieving their goals .
•The speedy and substantial progress of the Information and Communication
Technology.
•It wide possibilities at its disposal have been highlighted as the key factor for
this specific purpose.

11. • The book encompasses the different stages of human life.
• It emphasise on the common goal of unearthing the tremendous resources.
• support systems implicit in the field of education.
• It mentions about the school days of Dr. Kalam and his friend Kota
Harinarayana (former chief of Indias Light Combat Aircraft Development
Programme) when vision and inspiration were the only tools to keep the fire
of aspiration burning in a not-so advanced educational system.
• The book delves into the vivid life events of Dr. Kalam, which have taken
him through varied corners of the country.

12. • Moreover, He recognised a prime necessity for the perfect fusion of quality
education and proper guidance.
• The book serves its purpose well in inspiring young minds.
• It opens the doors of creative perception and pour out their latent skills
when they are most needed for national growth.
• While education is the most powerful instrument in building a stable and
mature society.
• every reader must realise how best to utilise the available resources in
fulfilling higher responsibility.