Abdul kalam Hindi Quotes

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Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15 October 1931 to a Tamil Muslim family in the pilgrimage centre of Rameswaram on Pamban Island, then in the Madras Presidency and now in the State of Tamil Nadu. His father Jainulabudeen was a boat owner and imam of a local mosque; his mother Ashiamma was a housewife.His father owned a ferry that took Hindu pilgrims back and forth between Rameswaram and the now uninhabited Dhanushkodi. Kalam was the youngest of four brothers and one sister in his family. His ancestors had been wealthy traders and landowners, with numerous properties and large tracts of land. Their business had involved trading groceries between the mainland and the island and to and from Sri Lanka, as well as ferrying pilgrims between the mainland and Pamban. As a result, the family acquired the title of "Mara Kalam iyakkivar" (wooden boat steerers), which over the years became shortened to "Marakier." With the opening of the Pamban Bridge to the mainland in 1914, however, the businesses failed and the family fortune and properties were lost over time, apart from the ancestral home. By his early childhood, Kalam's family had become poor; at an early age, he sold newspapers to supplement his family's income

Awards & Achievements:
- DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the proud recipient of Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Bharat Ratna awards from the Government of India. He received the same in the years 1981, 1990 and 1997, respectively.
- In 1997, the Government of India with the Indira Gandhi Award honored him for National Integration.
- Later, the next year, he was awarded the Veer Savarkar Award by the Government of India.
- The Alwars Research Centre, Chennai, bestowed DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with Ramanujan Award in the year 2000.
- The Royal Society, U.K in 2007, honored DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with the King Charles II Medal.
- The California Institute of Technology, U.S.A, presented DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with the International von Karman Wings Award in the year 2009. The same year, he won the Hoover Medal by ASME Foundation, USA.
- The IEEE honored DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam with IEEE Honorary Membership in 2011.
- DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the proud recipient of honorary doctorates from 40 universities.
- In addition to this, DR. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's 79th birthday was recognised as World Students' Day by United Nations.
- He was nominated for the MTV Youth Icon of the Year award in 2003 and in 2006.