You Are Born To Blossom
Product Description 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. About the Author Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, b. 15 October 1931, is one of India's most distinguished scientists. He was responsible for the development of ISPRO's launch vehicle programme, the develop-ment and operationalization of strategic missiles at DRDO, and building indigenous capability in critical technologies. As scientific adviser to the defence minister, he was one of the brains behind the Pokhran-11 nuclear tests in 1998. As chairman of TIFAC, he guided a number of technology projects and missions; his document on Technology Vision 2020 was a blueprint to make India a developed country. Dr. Kalam was principal scientific adviser to the Government of India holding the rank of a cabinet minister from 1999 to 2001.