Winges of fire

We create and destroyAnd again recreate

In forms of which no one knows

CONTEMPLATION MEANS THOUGHTFUL OBSERVATION OR STUDY.

Away! fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more!Work claimed my wakeful nights, my busy daysAlbeit brought memories of Rameswaram shoreYet haunt my dreaming gaze!

India had achieved the status of having a third generation anti-tank missile system with ‘fire-and-forget’ capability—on par with any state of-the-art technology in the world.

Nag uses two key technologies—an Imaging Infra Red (IIR) system and a Millimetric Wave (MMW) seeker radar as its guiding eye. No single laboratory in the country possessed the capability of developing these highly advanced systems.

I asked after my high school teacher Iyadurai. “Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended,” I

told Rev. Solomon. “You have not only reached my goals Kalam! You have eclipsed them,” he told me in a voice choked with emotion. The next month, I happened to be in Trichi and used that opportunity.

I was a little embarrassed at finding my name mentioned along with that of the legendary Nelson Mandela, who was also honored at the same convocation(1990).

Impossible timeframes,PERT charts to boot

Are driving me almost crazy as a coot;Presentations to MC add to one’s woes,

If they solve anything, Heaven only knows.Meetings on holidays, even at night,

The family is fed up,And all ready to fight.My hands are itching

to tear my hair —But alas! I haven’t any more to tear ...

My friend, Prof. P. Rama Rao, who was heading the Department of Science and Technology in the Government of India, even struck up a Partnership with me to establish what he called the Rao-Kalam school. We were unanimous in our opinion that carrying out certain missions

and Reaching certain milestones, however important they may be or however impressive they might appear to be, is not all there is to life. But we had to postpone our plan as neither of us was relieved from our post by the Government of India.

It was during this period that I decided to put down my memoirs and express my observations and opinions on certain issues.

When you work as a project team, you need to develop a complex view of the success criteria.

The concept of Technology Management has its roots in the Developmental Management models which originated in the early Sixties. out of a conflict between harmony-seeking and output-oriented management structures. There are basically two types of management orientations: primal, which values an economic employee. rational, which values an organizational employee.

Dr. Homi Jahangir Bhabha and Prof. Vikram Sarabhai launched the high, technology-based atomic energy and space programmes with a clear-cut emphasis on the natural laws of total flow.

God has not promisedSkies always blue,

Flower-strewn pathwaysAll our life through;

God has not promisedSun without rain,

Joy without sorrow,Peace without pain.

But God has promisedStrength for the day,Rest for the labourLight for the way.

On the coast of CoromandelWhere the earthy shells blow,In the middle of the sandsLived some really rich souls.One cotton lungi and half a candle –One old jug without a handleThese were all the worldly possessions Of these kings in the middle of the sands.

I am not a philosopher. I am only a man of technology. I spent all my life learning rocketry.

I am a well in this great landLooking at its millions of

boys and girlsTo draw from me

The inexhaustible divinityAnd spread His grace

everywhereAs does the water drawn

from a well

bird’s eye view of my life seen, as it were, from afar.

My worthiness is all my doubt– His merit – all my fear – Contrasting which my quality Does however – appear.

I do not wish to set myself up as an example to others,

but I believethat a few readers may draw

inspiration and come to experience that

ultimate satisfaction which can only be found in the life

of the spirit.

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