Failure N.0

Through Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam

Kalam, a personality which can't be described in any canvas. Born in a Tamil family, small village of Rameshwaram. Father Jainulabdeen, neither much educated nor much wealthy.

Mother used to fed people, whole day went into kitchen, far more outsiders ate with them than all the members of their own family put together. He was a short boy with not so good looks to handsome parents.

Didn't had much money to go to school. Also Kalam was keen to take maths tuition from his maths teacher, once that teacher conditioned students that, he will give classes to the pupil who are going to come at 4:am in the morning, and that too for free. Kalam used to wake up and went to maths classes at 4:am.

He tells a scenario of the time, when his brother had a work of distribution of news paper, that newspaper used to come via  railways from Pumba to Rameshwaram, but during the time of World War II trains stopped haulting at Rameshwaram and the driver used to throw the bundles of news paper while train in motion. He used to glean and catch those Newspapers and then help in distribution.

Kalam used to see the Birds flying around and asked his Guru about the principle behind it, his teacher failed to explain him. After which a kid from poor background, thought of flying an aeroplane and fly like a bird.

He completed schooling  and went on to complete his Graduation i.e, BSc. in Physics.

There a teacher who imprints on Kalams life said to him: There are 3things which one should never forget, Desire(Ichcha), Faith(Aastha), Expectation (Umeed), imbibing which you can pass any hurdle.

In Final Year of BSc he  dropped out and went ahead for Aeronautical Engineering in MIT. Here too didn't had fees to pay and her married sister mortgage her jewellery to pay the fees as a  result he always seeked scholarship. But one year he was struck in completing the project and asked for extension from Project head . Project head said today is Friday you have time till Monday, complete your Project or the scholarship will be terminated. For Kalam Scholarship was everything, he completed the work which almost required a month within 3 days forgetting everything. Project Head  analysed the project and said he knew that "You will do  it better in Pressure".

In Final Year he gets into the interview of Airforce and DRDO, regarding which he says he for the first time came out of South and saw the whole of India, the Ganga basin , Himalaya, Plains etc. 

In Airforce 8 candidates were to be selected and he got the 9th position. See the failure , He always wanted to be a pilot, by seeing the result he might have thought of his Career being haulted and over. The dream of becoming Pilot was shattered: Failure1 

He was selected by DRDO...   

Had he been selected in Airforce, We might not have got.         

The Missile Man of Our Country.

There is a long list of his Failures which might have broken him and shattered. But he still stood a hard rock.

I will try to continue the remaining in the next Blog.

Thanks for reading...