The first part of the book reveals his first job, first projects, first interviews, and meetings with prominent scientists of that time.
The second part of the book reveals Kalam’s journey from 1963-1980.This is the most significant part of his life. It is a comprehensive tale of creating India’s first SLV-3 rocket and launching it in the year 1980.
The failures, the inspirations, the leadership, the teamwork, the motivations, and the management are some of the important lessons one can pick up by reading wings of fire. This is a great story that teaches us never to lose focus and dedication to reach our goals. We should keep moving towards our aim without fearing the judgment by the whole world. Let not our failures and others judgment decide our fate of destiny. We should keep learning from the failures to improve our shortcomings.
Best motivational lesson from this book is
“You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.”
The book is a journey of dreams, hopes, successes and failures. The life of this great personality was none different than the normal person, only thing different was how he perceive the world around him and how he’s willing to go that little extra to achieve his dreams, how he’s willing to sacrifice for common good and how he never forgets who he really is (some qualities common to visionaries and great men like him). This book gives confidence to Indians that ‘we can do and we can do from India’.
It is story of courage, inspiration leadership and motivation. The book tells us how important it is to value the people around us in order to grow as a person. The book talks about the millions of people who have contributed to the life of Mr. Kalam, which tells us that a great personality is just not one person but a collective effort of many.
The book is also the journey of India’s technological advancement, lists how the success and failures were the integral part of the missions. Though there was a lot of hue and cry from the nation about huge money being pumped in for war purposes when half of the nation is below the poverty line. I too thought that such kind of advancement brings no good. But this book gives a scientist’s point of view and I realized that sometimes it is necessary to solve the puzzle to complete the picture. The hardest battles are those when you are fighting with your own family and indeed the scientists were fighting for a cause for which the nation gave them the least support. Through this book, Mr. Kalam states that missiles were not build to bring war but to become self reliant, to show the world that one cannot rule over others just because they are superior in warfare. This book is not a story of self praise or personal feat but v a person who had the fire in him to give his dreams wings to fly. Through this book he wants the youth to know that no efforts can go waste, no goals can remain unfulfilled and no life can be ordinary. Each of us needs to realize our potential, give away the feeling of being inferior and fight our own battles in order to fly high up in the sky with our WINGS OF FIRE!!!!!
On the successful launch of India’s missile program, Kalam received the
Padma Vibhushan. Kalam always said, “Failures are seeds of further
learning” and strongly believed that India can be a technological
leader.
For better understanding grab the book from Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of Abdul Kalam
People said about Dr APJ Abdul Kalam :-
The US media also highlighted the contribution of Kalam to India's atomic and space programme and described him as one of the most "exuberant boosters" of the country's nuclear capabilities.
"He used the spotlight to urge India to build up its military strength and to free itself from the threat of domination by outside forces," The New York Times wrote in a rare obituary for Kalam.
“His tenure as India’s 11th president witnessed unprecedented growth in US-India ties. Suitably named ‘the People’s President’, Dr. Kalam’s humility and dedication to public service served as an inspiration to millions of Indians and admirers around the world,” Obama said.
President Putin said that in Russia, Kalam will be remembered as a consistent exponent of closer friendly relations between the two nations who has done a lot for cementing mutually beneficial Russian-Indian cooperation. “Kalam rightly enjoyed high international authority as an outstanding scientist and a wise statesman,”
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