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Abdul Kalam – A Philosopher

Scientist

Be modest and you will be able to attain every kind of high
success in life.

r. APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India,
Ddied on July 27, 2015 at the age of 83. Throughout
his life he had been a man of integrity. Two words are
crucial to understand his personality—intellectually, he
was scientific in temper and morally, a very humble
person.
He was born into a South Indian family which could
initially not even afford to pay his school fees. But he
worked very hard and continued with his education,
and consequently went on to become one of the highly
respected aerospace scientists in the country.

Dr. Abdul Kalam was not one of those about whom
it is said that ‘he was born with a silver spoon in his
mouth’, yet he was born with a great ‘incentive spoon’
which was responsible for his tremendous success.
His ‘spoon’ helped him, and he rose to the highest
office of the president of India. The life of Dr. Abdul
Kalam has a very significant lesson, that is, people’s
categorization into haves and have-nots is unrealistic.

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