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Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A P J Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari; Universities Press, 1999. [12] Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India by A P J Abdul Kalam; Viking, 2002. [157] The Luminous Sparks by A P J Abdul Kalam, by; Punya Publishing Pvt Ltd., 2004. [158] Mission India by A P J Abdul Kalam, Paintings by Manav Gupta; Penguin ...
Dr APJ Abdul Kalam road was earlier called Aurangzeb road, named so by the British after the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.In November 2014, Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee petitioned the Prime Minister of India to change the name of Aurangzeb road after Guru Tegh Bahadur, the ninth Sikh guru, as a tribute to him on his martyrdom anniversary observed on 24 November. [3]
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam National Memorial is a memorial dedicated to the former president of the Republic of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam located in Peikarumbu, Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India. The memorial was designed and constructed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as a tribute to Kalam and to display the cultural ...
Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 to a Tamil Muslim family in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. His father Jainulabdeen was a boat owner and imam of a local mosque; his mother Ashiamma was a housewife. [1] By his early childhood, Kalam's family had become poor; at an early age, he sold newspapers to supplement his family's income. [2] File:A.P.J.Abdul ...
Kalam felt overjoyed to see an Indian glorified in NASA as a hero of rocketry warfare. His association with the Satellite Launch Vehicle and related projects are vividly presented in the section 'Creation'. During the period covered under 'Creation', Kalam, in the year 1976, lost his father who lived up to 102 years of age.
Since his death on July 27, 2015, several monuments, prizes, scholarships, and educational institutions have been named in honor of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Wikimedia Commons has media related to Monuments and memorials to A. P. J. Abdul Kalam .
This is the story of a boy, Chotu, from a poor family who works as a child labourer at a highway-side cafe (aka dhaba). Irrespective of the problems in his life, he is a happy child with a simple dream to become someone like Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The plot has the protagonist Chotu being sent to a dhaba to work and earn for the family.
On 31 July 2015, Then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa announced after the death of Kalam (27 July 2015) [3] that an award will be given annually in his name. The award prize will be five hundred thousand Indian rupees (about US$7,700), a certificate and a gold medal weighing eight grams. [4]