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Ignited MindsUnleashing the Power within India

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam is an Indian scientist and who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to

2007. Born: October 15, 1931 (age 83), Rameswaram.Full Name: Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul KalamAwards: Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan, Padma

Bhushan, more.Parents: Ashiamma Jainulabiddin, Jainulabiddin

Marakayar.Education: Madras Institute of Technology (1955–1960),

St. Joseph's College,Tiruchirappall i(1954).

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Books written by :-Wings of Fire: An

Autobiography, 1999.India 2020: A Vision for the

New Millennium, 1998. A New Knowledge Society

2000.Mission India, 2005.Turning points:A Journey

through challenges,2012Target 3 Billion, 2011. more…

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Dedication

APJ Kalam dedicate this book to a child who is studying in class 12. Her name is Snehal Thakkar. On 11 April 2002 when he reached Anand by road in the evening, it was under curfew following communal disturbances. The next day, at the Anandalaya High School, while talking to the students, a question came up: ‘Who is our enemy?’

There were many answers, but the one we all agreed was correct came from her: ‘Our enemy is Poverty.’

It is the root cause of our problems and should be the object of our fight, not our own.

CONTENTS

Introduction1. The Dream and the Message2. Give Us a Role Model3. Visionary Teachers and Scientists5. Patriotism beyond Politics and Religion6. The Knowledge Society7. Getting the Forces Together8. Building a New State9. To My Countrymen Song of Youth

The Dream and the Message

Spirituality must be integrated with education. Self-realization is the focus. Each one of us must become aware of our higher self. We are links of a great past to a grand future. We should ignite our dormant inner energy and let it guide our lives. The radiance of such minds embarked on constructive endeavour will bring peace, prosperity and bliss to this nation.

“Dream, Dream, Dream Dream transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.”

Give Us a Role Model

A nation’s wealth is the young generation of the country. When they grow up, who can be the role models? Mother, father and elementary schoolteachers play a very important part as role models. When the child grows up, the role models will be national leaders of quality and integrity in every field including politics, the sciences, technology and industry.

“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Visionary Teachers and Scientists

Vision ignites the minds. India needs visionaries of the stature of J.R.D. Tata, Vikram Sarabhai, Satish Dhawan and Dr Verghese Kurien, to name a few, who can involve an entire generation in mission-driven programmes which benefit the country as a whole.

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”

-Goethe

Patriotism beyond Politics and Religion

There are success stories among failures. There is hope among chaos, promise among problems. We are one billion people with multiple faiths and ideologies. In the absence of a national vision cracks at the seam keep surfacing and make us vulnerable. There is a need to reinforce this seam and amalgamate us into one national forum.

“I do not care for liberation, I would rather go to a hundred thousand hells, ‘doing good to others (silently) like the spring’, this is my religion.”

Swami Vivekananda

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The task of casting a strong India is in the hands of a visionary political leadership.

The Knowledge Society

Ancient India was a knowledge society that contributed a great deal to civilization. We need to recover that status and become a knowledge power. We must learn from our mistakes to achieve a better standard of life. A developed India will supplant a spirit of defeat with the spirit of victory.

“Wisdom is a weapon to ward off destruction; It is an inner fortress which enemies cannot destroy.”

- Thirukkural 421 (200 BC)

Getting the Forces Together

We need to adapt the implementation of our programmes and policies into a mission mode to succeed. Progress cannot be swift and far-reaching if the path is full of potholes. The abundant national resources, human and material, remain to be fully utilized.

“Determine that things can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.”

-Abraham Lincoln

Building a New State

The way to development is through purposeful activity. The young especially have to be guided properly, so that their lives find a proper direction and their creativity is allowed to flower. To facilitate this, certain educational reforms must be initiated.

With regard to improving the pace of development, Centre-state efforts should be coordinated in a few key areas and efforts across sectors and organizations integrated and taken up in a mission mode. The mindset must change, showing willingness to take risks. Success will follow.

“If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power and beauty that nature can bestow—in some parts a very paradise on earth—I should point to India.”

-F. Max Müller

Song of Youth

ME AND MY NATION–INDIA

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology, knowledge and love for my nation,

I realize, small aim is a crime.

I will work and sweat for a great vision, the vision of transforming India into a developed nation

powered by economic strength with value system.

I am one of the citizens of a billion, only the vision will ignite the billion souls.

It has entered into me, the ignited soul compared to any resource,

is the most powerful resource on the earth, above the earth and under the earth.

I will keep the lamp of knowledge burning to achieve the vision—Developed India.

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We should all, particularly the young generation, should launch a

movement for transparent India.

Transparency is the corner stone of development.

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Student should get ready to transform India into a

developed nation.

IGNITE YOUR MINDS AND

THINK BIG.

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