Abdul Kalam was a prominent Indian scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. Renowned for his pivotal role in the nation’s civilian space programme and military missile development, he was known as the Missile Man of India.

He made significant contributions to India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998 which established him as a national hero. An alumnus of the prestigious Madras Institute of Technology, Kalam began his career as a scientist at the Aeronautical Development Establishment of the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO).

He was later transferred to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) where he served as the project director of India's first Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III). He eventually rejoined DRDO and became closely involved in India’s space programme. He served as the Chief Scientific Adviser to the Prime Minister in the 1990s before becoming the President of India in 2002. Immensely popular during his term, he earned the moniker of People's President.

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian politician and aerospace scientist who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics. In the 2011 Hindi film I Am Kalam, Kalam is portrayed as a positive influence on a poor but bright.

He was honored with several awards including the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour, for his contribution to the nation’s space and nuclear programme.

Publication date 1999 Media type Print () Pages 180 (paperback edition) (paperback edition) Q143.A197 A3 1999 Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam (1999), former. It was written by Dr. Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs. Kalam started his career, after graduating from Aerospace engineering at, at and was assigned to build a prototype. Windows 10 arc gamer edition x64 processor 1. Later he moved to and helped establish the and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program, with particular successes in thermonuclear weapons development culminating in the operation and an. Kalam died on 27 July 2015, during a speech at in,.

Contents • • • • • • • Translations [ ] The autobiography first published in English, has so far been translated and published in 13 languages including, English,,,,,,. Outside of the major, Wings of Fire was translated into (titled Huo Yi, by Ji Peng), and translated into. Structure [ ] Wings of Fire unfolds the story of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam from his childhood in the following seven sections: • Preface • Introductions • Orientation • Creation • Propitiation • Contemplation • Epilogue Kalam was born in 1931, the son of a little-educated boat owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. His father was also the imam of the small mosque in Rameswaram.

He had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating the highest civilian award of India, Bharat Ratna. As a chief of the country's defence research and development programmer, Kalam demonstrated a great potential for dynamics and innovations that existed in seemingly moribund research establishment.

This is the story of Kalam's own rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of AGNI, TRISHUL and NAG missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. Since independence, India has sought in various ways, to self-realization, and to adulation and success. The book begins with the childhood of Kalam's life. In the beginning, he introduces us to his family and tries to familiarize us with his birthplace Rameswaram. In the childhood, he was a great admirer of his father, Jainulabdeen.

He was a man of great wisdom and kindness, and Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, a close friend of his father and the head priest of the Rameswaram Temple. He had an ideal helpmate in his mother, Ashiamma. He was also influenced by his close friend, Ahmed Jallaluddin; he was about 15 years older than Kalam. With his friend, he talked about spiritual matters. This shows that he believed in spirituality and also believed in God or Khudah.