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Unit 13: My Vision for India by APJ Abdul Kalam

CONTENTS
Objectives

Introduction
13.1 My Vision for India

13.2 Understanding the Text
13.3 Analysis
13.4 Summary
13.5 Keywords

13.6 Review Questions
13.7. Further Readings

Objectives

After reading this unit, you will be able to:
• Appreciate the former President Dr. Kalam’s vision for India;
• Identify an individual’s role in India’s development;
• Use identical pairs of words having different meanings in sentences of their own;
• Use modals appropriately; and
• Write a descriptive paragraph.

Introduction

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, usually referred to as Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is an
Indian scientist and administrator who served as the 11th President of India. Kalam was born
and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, studied physics at the St. Joseph’s College, Tiruchirappalli,
and aerospace engineering at the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT), Chennai.
Before his term as President, he worked as an aerospace engineer with Defence Research and
Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Kalam is
popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic
missile and launch vehicle technology. He played a pivotal organisational, technical and political
role in India’s Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India
in 1974. Some scientific experts have however called Kalam a man with no authority over
nuclear physics but who just carried on the works of Homi J. Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
Kalam was elected the President of India in 2002, defeating Lakshmi Sehgal and was supported
by both Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party, the major political parties of
India. He is currently a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and
Indian Institute of Management Indore, Chancellor of the Indian Institute of Space Science and
Technology Thiruvananthapuram, a professor of Aerospace Engineering at Anna University
(Chennai), JSS University (Mysore) and an adjunct/visiting faculty at many other academic
and research institutions across India.

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