Write in your
your own words, how Dr. Kalam and his
two friends reacted with each other
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> Dr. A.P.J. Kalam was a friend of mine for over 40 years — from 1973. The first time I met him was about a year earlier, when he was working as a Junior Scientist at the Aeronautical Development Establishment in Bangalore, where its Director, Air Cmd. Krishnamurty had taken me to see a “hovercraft” being developed by ADE. With lot of enthusiasm, Dr. Kalam and his co-workers demonstrated the functioning of the hovercraft under development.
He said that it would be very useful to travel over the sea near his native place in Rameswaram over some distances after further development was done. From October 1973 for over six months, our interaction was quite intense as he had been nominated by Prof. Satish Dhawan as a member of the task force set up by the government on using artificial satellites for different purposes. I was the Chairman of the task force, which had members from the three services, Department of Space, Department of Telecommunications and a few others. Dr. Kalam’s contribution to preparing the report was substantial. Even at that time he was talking about including “payload recovery” after re-entry of that module from space. He and his team prepared the sketches, and made presentations to the task force members. The task force report, which was declassified in 1981, indeed covered this aspect in a simple academic way. From that time onwards, due to some commonality of professional interests, we stayed in touch. I used to attend seminars and workshops conducted by the ISRO, where we met a few times.
In mid-1981, I invited Dr. Raja Ramanna who was at that time our Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister, and Dr. Kalam, who was working as Director at the ISRO headquarters in Bangalore, to the Defence Electronics Application Laboratory (DEAL) in Dehradun to inaugurate and deliver a technical lecture there. In his speech, Dr. Kalam paid compliments to our laboratory saying that while everyone complained about our poor communications, DEAL was able to contact him two to three times a day during the past few days. After that function, Dr. Rajaramanna had a discussion in my office about the possibility of Dr. Kalam joining as Director of the DRDL in Hyderabad to provide leadership to India’s missiles programme. Dr. Kalam replied that Prof. Satish Dhawan would have to decide on that. That was how Dr. Kalam joined the DRDO. This episode has been covered in Dr Kalam’s first book “Wings of Fire”.
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