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My Hero : APJ Abdul Kalam The Pokhran-2 test was also assigned to him.

What is an idol? Here ,in this context idol means a His hobbies were he used to sit at the lake in his

person whom you think as an inspiration or you want to be village in Rameshwaram and looked at the birds flying and

like him/her. Idol means a person whom you keep in your thought someday he could fly like them which he did and

mind, take their qualities, strategies and many other things became such a great person .He taught us that we have to

to progress in your life. I have an idol who is APJ Abdul dream and work towards our dreams so that they come

Kalam .His full name is Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. true.

Let me tell you why I admire him the most about him.
After some days I took part in science competitions

As a school subject I hated science very much. I and competitive exams in school. He came from a poor

thought science was just writing and learning answers. But family and became the 12th president of India. He not only

when Abdul sir came in my life as an inspiration, I looked at inspired Indians but the people from other countries as

not only science but other subjects also from other way well. He carried out many successful experiments. At the

and enjoyed learning them. age of 83 this great man started his journey to heaven as

He worked with Indian space research organisation he died due to cardiac arrest in 2015.

and Defence Research and Development You all must be thinking why I admire this man, it is

Organisation(DRDO). He launched many missions like Agni, because he was a simple and a humble man even if he had

SLV-3 , PSLV and made many other missiles for the Indian so much of importance. He considered all the citizens of

defence. He was called ‘Missile man of India’. He got India equal. Hats off to you sir! I will try to pay tribute to

doctorate from 40 universities. He missed an opportunity you by giving my contributions in the field of science.

to serve Indian air force as he came on the nineth position Sharvari Chaudhari [ VII ]

and unfortunately it had only eight seats.