Wings of Fire
This book is an autobiography of the present President of INDIA Dr.A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Mr. Arun Tiwari who was a junior working under him helped him with the writing of this book .He also quotes sentences from the Gita and the Kuran which he(Kalam) reads regularly .
This book is a fantastic reading experience .It is one of the most inspiring and educative piece of work , I have ever read in my life . There are a lot of scientific words, statements used. These scientific language or concepts might not interest, non-scientific people but even for them there is more than just a message in the book.
As for science students, professors and others associated with this industry will definitely enjoy reading this book.
Mr. Kalam through his book inspires the people in general and students in particular or work hard and accomplish something of the order he has, for our country –INDIA .
That’s the reason why he always says, “Dream Big, Dreaming small is a crime!”.
This inspiring book is divided into 4 stages of Kalam’s life-
· Orientation – (1931-1963)
In which he talks of his childhood , struggles of a small-town child and his jubilation and journey from Rameswaram to a Mega-City like Bombay and later to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration , New York)
In the U.S.
· Creation –(1963-1980)
His describes his work, creations at NASA and other places .His work under Dr.Sarabhai(yet another top-class scientists of INDIA).His work with scientists from countries like USA, USSR , Japan, Germany, France etc. He explains his work in TERLS(Thuma Equatorial Rocket Launch Station ).His work with INCOSPAR ( Indian Committee for Space research ) and his work on SLV’s (Satellite Launch Vehicles), hovercrafts and many more such projects
· Propitiation (1981-1991)
This part of the book gives information of more and
More work that he did as a rocket engineer of INDIA! He long cherished dreams the Prithvi and other such missiles and SLV’s.
· Contemplation (1991-)
This section he describes about more of his work for the
Nation and his successful work on AGNI –the pride of INDIA.
His Message to the people of INDIA is (which is mentioned in the introduction of the book ) :
Each individual creature of this beautiful planet is crated by God to fulfill a particular role Whatever I (Kalam) has achieved in life is through his help and an expression of His will. All these missiles and rocket are his work through a small person named Kalam , in order to tell the several millions of the mass of India , to never feel small or helpless.
“We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with glow of its goodness.” – APJ Abdul Kalam .
At the end I would just say that I strongly recommend this book for every son of INDIA –JAI HIND AND VANDE MATRAM!