A.P.J Abdul Kalam has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is You Are Born to Blossom.
Guiding Souls
Summary
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, born on 15 October 1931, is one of the India's most distinguished scientists. He is held credited for the development of India's first satellite launch vehicle, the SLV-3. As Chairman of The Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), he prepared the document on Technology Vision 2020 to make India a developed country. APJ Abdul Kalam held various positions in Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and became Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India. He has the unique honour of receiving honorary Doctorates from more than 30 universities as well as the country's three highest civilian awards - Padma Bhushan (1981), Padma Vibhushan (1990) and Bharat Ratna (1997). He has met more than 500,000 children from all over the country to share his vision of India. He is the eleventh President of the Republic of India.
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You Are Born to Blossom
Summary
This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes Information and Communication Technology mining the rural talent. Here, Dr. Kalam presents his dream of schools in India in 2020 as symbiotic nerve centres connecting teachers, students and community; personifying knowledge that exists in the world. He also makes a clarion call to accelerate the process of societal transformation. This would involve raising the standards of governance and safeguarding the sanctity of public institutions. The book uses the metaphor of a tree to describe the process of knowledge bearing fruits of prosperity in the contemporary globalised world, where different phases, formative, adult working life, and post-50 experienced senior citizens, call for different kinds of learning. The book refers to a contextual contribution of a large number of Indian scientists and artists and proves that there is no age bar to blossom. He advocates creation of conditions that favour growth of diverse individual talents akin to a garden and calls for a scientific mind-set guided by conscience, consensus and actions that take our social and moral values into account in building our own systems.
©2004 APJM Nazema Maraikayar (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Agni Ki Udaan [Flight of Fire]
Summary
Dr. Kalam had a firm belief - that each one of us is born with the strength and potential to make a tangible change in the world. In Agni Ki Udaan, Dr. Kalam recounts his own life journey and while doing so evokes in the listener the need to discover their inner fire and potential. In this audiobook, he talks about the things that inspired him to achieve his dreams. From his childhood to his time at school and college and later the time he spent at the Langley Research Center, NASA and Wallops Flight Facility, Dr. Kalam takes us through his life journey. Please note: This audiobook is in Hindi.
©1999 APJM Nazema Maraikayar (P)2018 Audible, Inc.