Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The journey of India’s ‘missile man’ and the 11th President Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, which came to an end on Monday at the age of 84, is not a classic rags to riches story, but a rare odyssey of rags to fame. An institution builder, a workaholic bachelor who motivated young scientists and ignited the minds of young students across the country collapsed while delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management in Shillong.
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam having a word with Satya Saibaba on the latter’s 81st Birthy day celebrations at Puttaparthi.
A PJ Abdul Kalam, along with A. C. Shanmugam, Chairman, Rajarajeswari Medical College & Hospital, participates in the graduation day function, at Rajarajeshwari Medical College in Kambipura, on Mysore road, in Bangalore on April 26, 2013.
People’s president: Former president APJ Abdul Kalam has always been popular with children. Here students of various schools vie with each other to shake hands with him during a visit to `Chetana a children’s home of Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer in Guntur on March 15, 2015. – Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar
BJP leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, L.K. Advani, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, BJP president Nitin Gadkari and JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav during a function for the launch of 'Samagra Atalji' project to digitalise former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's speeches, articles and interviews, in New Delhi on June 08, 2011. - Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma
Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam interacts with Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu N. Ram, at 'The Hindu Saregama M.S. Subbulakshmi Award' function in Chennai on April 11, 2011. - Photo: R. Ravindran
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presents the "Tholkappiar Award" to the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi at a function organised in Chennai on September 04, 2006. Others seen are (from left) V.C.Kulandaisamy, R.M.Veerappan and Jagathrakshagan.
Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting gold medals to first-rank holder Pragathi Kulkarni during the graduation day of CMR Institute of Technology in Bangalore on May 17, 2012. K.C. Ramamurthy, Chairman, CMR Group of Institutions (right), and L. Sudershan Reddy of the Institute, are seen. -Photo: G.P. Sampath Kumar
A girl student explains her model to Former President APJ Abdul Kalam during the inauguration of ‘Science Exhibition', at Government Model School in Bhopal on November 15, 2010. Photo: A. M. Faruqui
The President A. P.J. Abdul Kalam greets Noble Laureate, Professor Horst L. Stormer at the International Conference on Physics Education at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi on August 22, 2005. - Photo: R. V. Moorthy
Abdul Kalam, Former President of India, signing his caricature before inaugurating decennial celebrations of Jnanadeepa School on 27th February 2009.
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman Madhavan Nair, accompanied by his beaming colleagues, presents a model of the Moon to the former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, at the spacecraft control centre in Bangalore on November 14, 2008, soon after India's Moon Impact Probe (MIP) successfully landed on the lunar surface. India became the fourth country in the world to have put a probe on lunar soil, after the MIP successfully landed on the lunar surface after being detached from the unmanned spacecraft Chandrayaan-1. -Photo: K. Murali Kumar
Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, calling on President APJ Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 17th November, 2006. - Photo: V.V.Krishnan
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President APJ Abdul Kalam at a ceremonial reception at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, on January 11, 2007. - Photo: V.V. Krishnan
Former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, being welcomed by children at a seminar on Kulothungan’s poetry held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Chennai on July 10, 2010. - Photo: S. S. Kumar
Newly elected President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, being greeted by Congress President Ms. Sonia Gandhi at his residence in the Capital on 19th July, 2002. – Photo: Kamal Narang
The President A. P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting the Padma Shri Award to Shah Rukh Khan at the Investiture Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on March 28, 2005. - Photo: Sandeep Saxena
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam along with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the ''At Home'' reception hosted on the occasion of 58th Republic Day celebrations at Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on January 26. 2007. - Photo: S. Subramanium
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam with Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg in September, 2004. – PTI
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi in Jan 2015. - PTI
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam with President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi in Dec 2014. - PTI
Former president APJ Abdul Kalam with US President Barack Obama in New Delhi in Jan 2015. - PTI
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam seen talking to the boys who were present to chant religious verses at the Rajiv Ninaivagam in Sriperumpudur near Chennai on October 10, 2003. Boys recited verses invoking Mother Earth during the function to dedicate the memorial. - Photo: Vino John
A.P. J. Abdul kalam speaking at the National institute of Technology on February 26, 2014 in Tiruchi. - Photo: A. Muralitharan
The President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam signing autographs for students who met him at the Cochin International Airport on July 29, 2005. - Photo: Mahesh Harilal
Published on July 27, 2015
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