After achieving so much in his life, Dr.Kalam continues his impressive run as an author, with his fifteenth book, Forge Your Future. If you’ve read any of his earlier books(except for Developments in Fluid Mechanics and Space Technology!) you would know that Dr.Kalam deeply believes in motivating the youth to find their potential and transform India into a superpower.
This theme continues in his latest book, which is not an actual book, but a collection of questions and answers. The questions are from youngsters all over the country, sent to Dr.Kalam through various media. After cherry-picking 32 of these questions, he has answered them in a generic manner, so as to be useful to readers in any context.
The questions are divided into five categories – Preparing for success, Creating a better society, Empowering Women, Building a strong India and Competing with the World.
Strictly speaking, this is no different from most other motivational books on the market. The USP of Forge Your Future is that the motivational words come from Dr.Kalam, whose story is so compelling that you can’t help but feel inspired by the advice coming from his context.
As for me, I did find the book really interesting. And it did motivate me, because it was a reminder that I had just finished reading Dr.Kalam’s fifteenth book! If someone with a schedule as hectic as his could find the time to write fifteen books, I simply have no excuse to delay my first book any longer!