{"id":40371,"date":"2015-08-05T21:59:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/?p=40371"},"modified":"2024-04-03T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T07:43:00","slug":"mr-kalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/mr-kalam\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Kalam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mr.-Kalam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40462\" src=\"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Mr.-Kalam.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Kalam\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lives of Great men all remind us<br \/>\nWe can make our lives sublime,<br \/>\nAnd, departing, leave behind us<br \/>\nFootprints on the sand of time<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nA frail boy with a sharp brain is born to a Muslim boatman father and housewife mother.<\/p>\n<p><em>8 years have passed\u2026<\/em> the financial isn\u2019t good enough.Boat business doesn\u2019t pay up well. He supplements his father\u2019s income by distributing newspapers in the town.<br \/>\n<em>15 years have passed\u2026 <\/em>he has graduated in physics from Tiruchirapalli.<br \/>\n<em>6 years have passed\u2026<\/em> he has moved to Madras to pursue Aeronautical Engineering.<br \/>\n<em>8 years have passed\u2026 <\/em>he has started his career as a DRDO scientist.<br \/>\n<em>11 years have passed\u2026<\/em> India enters the space club by putting Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit, under the stewardship of that frail boy.<br \/>\n<em>12 years have passed\u2026<\/em> he is the chief scientific Advisor to the PM and Secretary of the DRDO and receives Bharat Ratna, highest civilian award in India.<br \/>\n<em>3 years have passed\u2026<\/em> he is now the Head of the country. Also, becomes the first scientist and first bachelor to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan.<br \/>\n<em>7 years have passed\u2026<\/em> he travels around the corner of the country meeting students, academicians and professionals, delivering the message of hard work, integrity and hope.<br \/>\n<em>8 years have passed\u2026<\/em> (28 July 2015, 6: 35 PM) the grey haired bachelor closes his eyes forever, collapses while delivering a lecture at IIM,Shillong.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Dear Man has departed, starting his journey to heaven after having lived 83 legendary years in our land.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He took the final journey, teaching, what he always wanted to be remembered doing. Till his last breath, he was standing tall, working and lecturing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He would not have been what he is today, had he scored a few more marks in ASFB interview.<\/strong><br \/>\nIn his book \u201cMy Journey: Transforming dreams into actions\u201d, Kalam said that his dearest dream was to be able to fly to handle a machine as it rose higher\u201d. He always wanted to be a pilot but he couldn\u2019t live his dream because destiny had planned something bigger for him\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>What makes him so special that he was dearly loved by one and all?<\/strong><br \/>\nPractising what he preached, igniting minds of millions, humanitarian works, a vision of India 2020 and lastly his humble attitude.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has he left behind?<\/strong><br \/>\n20 books he authored, his bare possessions, his exemplary life as a great statesman, acclaimed scientist and a loved teacher.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>In conclusion, Mr Kalam sums up his life in his own words<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Love poured to the child\u2026struggle\u2026more struggle\u2026bitter tears\u2026then sweet tears and finally a life as beautiful and fulfilling as seeing the birth of the full moon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Life-Skills\">Click here for government certification in Life Skills<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lives of Great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time A frail boy with a sharp brain is born to a Muslim boatman father and housewife mother. 8 years have passed\u2026 the financial isn\u2019t good enough.Boat business doesn\u2019t pay up well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1318,"featured_media":40462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1531],"tags":[5704,4212,5705,5703,5706],"class_list":["post-40371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-skills","tag-igniting-minds","tag-journey","tag-missile-man","tag-mr-kalam","tag-teacher"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mr. Kalam - Vskills Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mr. Kalam; personality to look upto... 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