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My Journey
From a small boy growing up in Rameswaram, to becoming the country?s eleventh President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?s life has been a tale of extraordinary determination, courage, perseverance and the desire to excel. In this series of anecdotes and profiles, Dr Kalam looks back on key moments in his past?some small and some momentous?and tells the reader how each of them inspired him profoundly. With warmth and affection, he talks about the people who left a deep impression on him as he was growing up and as an adult, and the lessons he drew from his interactions with them. He describes those who have been the closest to him?his father with his deep love of God, his mother and her great kindness, his mentors who helped shape his thoughts and outlook. There are heart-warming accounts here of his childhood years spent in a small town by the Bay of Bengal and the many struggles and sacrifices made on the path to becoming a scientist and then the President of India. Dr Kalam also writes about the times when failure and dejection nearly overtook him and how he prevailed over those obstacles by drawing strength from books and spirituality.Nostalgic, honest, and deeply personal, My Journey is the story of a life as rich as it is unusual and the beautiful lessons to be learnt from it.
Makkayilekkulla paadha
"ഞാൻ ഇന്ത്യയിലേക്ക് പോകാൻ വേണ്ടി അറേബ്യ വിടുന്നതിനു മുമ്പുള്ള ഏതാനും വര്ഷങ്ങളുടെ കഥ. ലിബിയൻ മരുഭൂമിയുടേയും മഞ്ഞുമൂടിയ പാമിർ കുന്നുകളുടെയും ബൊസ്പര്സിന്റെയും അറബിക്കടലിന്റെയും ഇടയിൽ കിടക്കുന്ന ഏതെണ്ടെല്ലാ രാജ്യങ്ങളിലൂടെയും യാത്ര ചെയ്യാൻ ചിലവാക്കിയ ഉദ്വേഗജനകമായ വര്ഷങ്ങളുടെ കഥയാണിത്. സന്ദർഭോചിതമായി ആ കഥകൾ വിവരിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. 1932 ലെ വേനൽക്കാലത്തു അറേബ്യയുടെ ഉൾപ്രദേശത്തു നിന്ന് മക്കയിലേക്ക് ഞാൻ നടത്തിയ യാത്രയുടെ കാലപരിധിക്കകത്താണ് ആ കഥാവിവരണമുള്ളത്... ആ 23 ദിവസത്തെ യാത്രയുടെ രീതിയിൽ തന്നെയായിരുന്നു എന്റെ ജീവിത വളർച്ചയുടെ സമ്പ്രദായവും എന്നെ എനിക്ക് തന്നെ അപ്പോഴാണ് വെളിവായത്. ആ അറേബ്യ ഇന്നില്ല. അതിന്റെ തനിമയും സത്യസന്ധതയും എണ്ണയുടെയും എണ്ണകൊണ്ടുവന്ന സ്വർണത്തിന്റെയും കനത്ത പ്രവാഹത്തിൽ ഞെരിഞ്ഞമർന്നു പോയി. അതിന്റെ മഹത്തായ ലാളിത്യം എവിടെയോ പോയ്മറഞ്ഞു. മാനവതക്ക് അപൂര്വ്വമായി അവിടെ കണ്ടിരുന്ന പലതും അക്കൂട്ടത്തിൽ പോയിപോയി. ഇനിയൊരിക്കലും വീണ്ടെടുക്കാനാവാത്ത വിധം എന്നെന്നേക്കുമായി നഷ്ടമായി പോയ അമൂല്യമായ ചിലതിനെ ചൊല്ലിയുള്ള ഒടുങ്ങാത്ത വേദനയോടെയാണ് ആ നീണ്ട മണലാരണ്യത്തിലൂടെ ഞങ്ങൾ യാത്ര പോയത് എന്ന് ഞാൻ ഓർമ്മിക്കുന്നു. ഞങ്ങൾ... ഞങ്ങൾ രണ്ടുപേർ... ഒട്ടകങ്ങളുടെ പുറത്തു... പ്രകാശത്തിന്റെ പ്രവാഹത്തിലൂടെ..."
autobiography
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna. As chief of the country's defence research and development programme, Kalam demonstrated the great potential for dynamism and innovation that existed in seemingly moribund research establishments. This is the story of Kalam's rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of Agni, Prithvi, Akash, 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. This is also the saga of independent India's struggle for technological self-sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.
THE TIGER OF DRASS
In May 1999, the Kargil insurgency was still being viewed as a routine affair. No one quite understood the magnitude of the situation. However, it soon emerged that infiltrators had captured high-altitude posts vacated by Indian soldiers during the winter months and thus had a tactical upper hand, while the Indian Army struggled with intelligence.For the next month or so, Capt. Anuj Nayyar and the men of 17 Jat went on various reconnaissance missions in the boulder-strewn Drass sector where enemy troops had set up base. They fought relentlessly in a gruesome battle for two nights in July, before securing the peak that was critical to the success of Operation Vijay and India's victory in Kargil. Amid heavy artillery and mortar fire, they destroyed four enemy bunkers and neutralized tens of infiltrators in close combat. During the attack on the fourth bunker, the twenty-three-year-old captain was hit by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade, dying instantly but saving the lives of fifteen men in the process, who eventually finished the mission and hoisted the Indian flag on the peak.For motivating his command by personal example and going beyond the call of duty, Capt. Anuj Nayyar was awarded India's second-highest gallantry award, the Maha Vir Chakra, in 2000.
Inspirational
'How fortunate it is when life alters you without warning.' One of India's first supermodels. Actor. Cancer survivor. Mother of twins through surrogacy. Woman of no fixed address. This is the story of Lisa Ray. An unflinching, deeply moving account of her nomadic existence: her entry into the Indian entertainment industry at sixteen; her relationship with her Bengali father and Polish mother; life on the movie sets and her brush with the Oscars; her battle with eating disorders; being diagnosed with multiple myeloma at thirty-seven; her spiritual quest; lovers and traitors, mentors and dream-makers; and the heartaches and triumphs along the way. It is also about Lisa's quest for love. Funny, charming, and gut-wrenchingly honest all at once, Close to the Bone is Lisa Ray's brave and inspiring story of a life lived on her terms.
