Dr Abdul Pakir Zainul Abdin Abdul Kalam was born on 15th October 1931 in a middle class muslim family in Rameshwaram Tamil nadu. He was also known as the “Missile man of India” for his work in the development of ballistic missile and vehicle technology.
He was the 11th president of India. He was a well known scientist and an engineer. He has served at Defense research and development organisation(DRDO) and Indian space research organization in 1972 as a scientist and science administrator. He was the director general of the project, which was the first satellite SLV 111. Dr A.P.J Abdul Kalam was elected as the president of India by the bothe the ruling party and opposition bhartiye janta party and indian national Congress respectively and got 95%of the votes. In 1998 he played a very important role in the India’s Pokhran-11 nuclear test. He was awarded with some of the most prestigious awards such as- Padma Bhushan in 1981, Padma Vibhushan in 1990 and Bharat Ratna in 1997. He also had written some of the books like his autobiography “Wings of fire” as to guide the indian youth. His second book was
” Guiding souls- A Dialogues of the purpose of life”. His books were really demanding even in south korea and liked by many.
After being discharged as the president of India Kalam started taking guest lecturers at IIM ahmedabaad , IIM shillong, IIM Indore. He was the chancellor of Indian institution of space of space science and technology, Thiruvananthapuram. Later he also became professor at aerospace engineering at Anna university. He also used to teach at banaras hindu university and Indian institute of information technology Hyderabad in the field of information technology.
In may 2012 a programme was launched by Dr Kalam for motivating the youth regarding the defemation of corruption. The name of the programme was ” what can I give to the movement”.