My Journey - Transforming Dreams Into Actions

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My Journey recounts experiences from childhood to later life and emphasizes the lesson of keeping dreams alive and working hard to realize them. The introduction links the book’s idea to a reflective walk under a hundred-year-old Arjuna tree, evokes memories of Dr. Kalam’s father’s early-morning nature routine, and frames the narrative focus on lesser-known moments, family values, mentors, and personal challenges.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

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Pages62

Reading Time1 h 35 min

My Journey Born on 15 October 1931, at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu, Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam specialized in aeronautical engineering from Madras Institute of Technology. Dr Kalam is one of the most distinguished scientists of India and has received honorary doctorates from forty-five universities andinstitutions in India and abroad. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan (1981), the Padma Vibhushan (1990) and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna (1997) . He has also received the King Charles II medal (2007), the Woodrow Wilson Award (2008), the Hoover Award (2008) and the International Von Karman Wings Award (2009) among other international accolades. Dr Kalam became the eleventh President of India on 25 July 2002. His focus and greatest ambition remains finding ways to transform India into a developed nation. Published by Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2013 7/16, Ansari Road, Daryaganj New Delhi 110002 Sales Centres: Allahabad Bengaluru Chennai Hyderabad Jaipur Kathmandu Kolkata Mumbai Text copyright © A.P.J. Abdul Kalam 2013 Illustrations copyright © Rupa Publications India Pvt. Ltd 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The moral right of the author has been asserted. Printed at Thomson Press India Ltd This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated, without the publisher ’s prior consent, in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. To the sixteen million youth who I have met and interacted with in the last two decades contents Introduction My Father's Morning Walk The Boat A Working Boy at Eight Three Great Hearts Resolve a Problem My Mother and My Sister My First Mentor: Ahmed Jalalluddin When I Failed My Favourite Books A Brush with Fire My Mentor: Dr Vikram Sarabhai A Life in Science Miles to Go Acknowledgements introduction My Journey recounts certain unique experiences of my life from my childhood until now, when I am over eighty years old. In all these years and through all these experiences, the most important lesson I have learnt is, one must keep dreaming at various phases of life, and then work hard to realize those dreams. If we do so, then success is imminent. To the many people I meet I always say, 'Dreams are not those that we see in our sleep; they should be the ones that never let us sleep.' The idea for this book came to me one day while I was walking in my garden. Like every other time, I stood under the grand Arjuna tree which is nearly a hundred years old in age, and I looked up into its branches to see if any new nests had been built by birds or if a fresh beehive h

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