Identify the quality of Dr parameswar rao character that influenced his decision and write them below
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Well I would have really wanted this answer to be short but when you talk about Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam somehow it is not possible.
First I would like to add about his achievements as you know Action speaks louder than words.
1) Achievements
1954-58: After graduating in science from St. Joseph's College in Trichy, he enrolled for Aeronautical Engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology in 1954.
1958: Kalam joined the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and served as a senior scientific assistant, heading a small team that developed a prototype hovercraft. But the project, never took off.
1962: Following the lukewarm response to his hovercraft program, Kalam moved out of DRDO and joined Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO)
1963-82: Kalam joined the satellite launch vehicle team at Thumba, near Trivandrum and soon became Project Director for SLV-3.
1980: Rohini put into orbit in the month of July
1981: Kalam honoured with the Padma Bhushan
1982: Kalam returns to DRDO as its Director. Takes charge of India's integrated guided missile development program. The program envisaged the launch of five major missiles.
1992: Kalam takes over as the Scientific Advisor to Union Defence Minister.
1997: Kalam honoured with "Bharat Ratna", India’s highest civilian award.
May 11, 1998: Adorning a Gorkha hat in the Rajasthan deserts, he orchestrated India's underground nuclear tests. The scientist from a small hamlet in Tamil Nadu who had dreamt of India as a nuclear power many years ago had finally achieved it!
2002: Kalam takes over as the President of India.
2) Fearless
Now we always remember him as a person who was never afraid to voice his thoughts. This included when he thoroughly protested against appointing a foreign lady as prime minister of India.
"I will never support a foreigner to be the prime minister or president of India. I am firm on my stand," the Presidential hopeful said.
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3) Patriot
This one quality was considered one very close to his heart. The following is an excerpt from his book “Wings of Fire”:
That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM. I believe that India got its first vision of this in 1857, when we started the war of independence. It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and built on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.
4) Fair views
Well he always had his independent views whether it is media, technology, politics or others. Below listed are some of his views:
Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the second largest producer of wheat in the world. We are the second largest producers of rice. We are the first in milk production. We are number one in Remote sensing satellites. Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed with the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchid and a granary. It was his inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so negative?
Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with Foreign things? We want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is:
She replied: I want to live in a developed India. For her, for you, we will have to build this developed India. You must proclaim.
--Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
Well there is more but i have already turned this answer into an essay. So this is where i should stop. The irony is although this is too much of an answer but it is still too less when we actually talk about this legend