Fwd: [Message from Abdul Kalam]

04-06-2001, 04:49 AM

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> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 06:39:02 -0800
> From: "Mukunda Rao Korrapolu"
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> Subject: Message from Abdul Kalam
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> Dr Abdul Kalam Wrote
>
>
> > > I have three visions for India.
> > >
> > > In 3000 years of our history, people from all
> over
> > > the world have come and invaded us, captured our
>
> > > lands, conquered our minds.
> > >
> > > From Alexander onwards. The Greeks, the Turks,
> the
> > > Muslims, the Portuguese, the British,the French,
>
> > > the
> > > Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over
>
> > > what
> > > was ours.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yet we have not done this to any other nation.
> We
> > > have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed
> > > their
> > > land,their culture, their history and tried to
> > > enforce
> > > our way of life on them. Why?
> > >
> > > Because we respect the freedom of others.
> > >
> > >
> > > That is why my first vision is that of FREEDOM.
> > >
> > > I believe that India got its first vision of
> this
> > > in
> > > 1857, when we started the war of independence!
> .It is
> > > this freedom that we must protect and nurture
> and
> > > built on. If we are not free, no one will
> respect
> > > us.
> > >
> > >
> > > My second vision for India is DEVELOPMENT.
> > >
> > > For fifty years we have been a developing
> nation.
> > > It
> > > is time we see ourselves as a developed
> nation.We
> > > are
> > > among top nations of the world in terms of GDP.
> We
> > > have 10 percent growth rate in most areas.
> > >
> > > Our poverty levels are falling.Our achievements
> > > are
> > > being globally recognized today.
> > >
> > > Yet we lack the self-confidence to see ourselves
>
> > > as
> > > a developed nation,self reliant and self
> assured.
> > > Isn't this right?
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a third vision. The India must stand up
> to
> > > the world.Because I believe that unless India
> > > stands
> > > up to the world, no one will respect us. Only
> > > strength respects strengt! h. We must be strong
> not
> > > only
> > > as a military power but also as an economic
> power.
> > > Both must go hand-in-hand.
> > >
> > >
> > > My good fortune was to have worked with three
> > > great
> > > minds.
> > >
> > > Dr. Vikram Sarabhai of the Dept. of space,
> > > Professor
> > > Satish Dhawan, who succeeded him, and Dr. Brahm
> > > Prakash,father of nuclear material. I was lucky
> to
> > > have worked with all three of them closely and
> > > consider this the great opportunity of my life.
> > >
> > >
> > > I see four milestones in my career:
> > >
> > > ONE:
> > >
> > > Twenty years I spent in ISRO. I was given the
> > > opportunity to be the project director for
> India's
> > > first satellite launch vehicle, SLV3. The one
> > > that launched Rohini. These years played a very
> > > important role in my life of Scientist.
> > >
> > >
> > > TWO:
> > >
> > >
> > > After my ISRO ye! ars, I joined DRDO and got a
> > > chance
> > > to be the part of India's guided missile
> program.
> > > It
> > > was my second bliss when Agni met its mission
> > > requirements in 1994.
> > >
> > > THREE:
> > >
> > >
> > > The Dept. of Atomic Energy and DRDO had this
> > > tremendous partnership in the recent nuclear
> > > tests,
> > > on May 11 and 13. This was the third bliss.The
> joy
> > > of participating with my team in these nuclear
> > > tests
> > > and proving to the world that India can make it,
>
> > > that
> > > we are no longer a developing nation but one of
> > > them.
> > > It made me feel very proud as an Indian. The
> fact
> > > that we have now developed for Agni a re-entry
> > > structure,for which we have developed this new
> > > material. A Very light material called
> > > carbon-carbon.
> > >
> > >
> > > FOUR:
> > >
> > >
> > > One day an orthopedic surgeon from Nizam Insti!
> tute
> > > of Medical Sciences visited my laboratory. He
> > > lifted
> > > the material and found it so light that he took
> me
> > > to
> > > his hospital and showed me his patients. There
> > > were
> > > these little girls and boys with heavy metallic
> > > calipers weighing over three Kgs. each, dragging
>
> > > their
> > > feet around.
> > >
> > > He said to me: Please remove the pain of my
> > > patients.
> > > In three weeks, we made these Floor reaction
> > > Orthosis
> > > 300 gram calipers and took them to the
> orthopedics
> > > center. The children didn't believe their eyes.
> > > From
> > > dragging around a three kg. load on their legs,
> > > they
> > > could now move around! Their parents had tears
> in
> > > their eyes.That was my fourth bliss!
> > >
> > >
> > > Why is the media here so negative? Why are we in
>
> > > India so embarrassed to recognize our own
> > > strengths,
> > > our achie! vements?
> > >
> > > We are such a great nation. We have so many
> > > amazing
> > > success stories but we refuse to acknowledge
> them.
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > We are the second largest producer of wheat in
> the
> > > world.We are the second largest producers in
> rice.
> > > We
> > > are the first in milk production. We are number
> > > one
> > > in Remote sensing satellites.
> > >
> > > Look at Dr. Sudarshan, he has transferred the
> > > tribal
> > > village into a self-sustaining, self driving
> unit.
> > >
> > > There are millions of such achievements but our
> > > media is only obsessed with the bad news and
> > > failures
> > > and disasters.
> > >
> > > I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the
> > > Israeli
> > > newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks
>
> > > and
> > > bombardments and deaths had taken place.
> > >
> > > The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the
> > > newspape! r had the picture of a Jewish
> gentleman
> > > who
> > > in five years had transformed his desert land
> > > into orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring
>
> > > picture that everyone woke up to. The gory
> details
> > > of
> > > killings,bombardments, deaths, were inside in
> the
> > > newspaper, buried among other news.
> > >
> > > In India we only read about
> > > death,sickness,terrorism,
> > > crime.Why are we so negative?
> > >
> > >
> > > Another question: Why are we, as a nation so
> > > obsessed with foreign things?
> > > we want foreign TVs, we want foreign shirts. We
> > > want
> > > foreign technology.Why this obsession with
> > > everything
> > > imported?
> > >
> > > Do we not realize that self-respect comes with
> > > self-reliance?
> > >
> > >
> > > I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a
> 14
> > > year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked
>
> > > her
> > > what her goal! in life is:
> > > She replied: I want to live in a developed
> India.
> > >
> > > For her, you and I will have to built this
> > > developed
> > > India. You must proclaim.
> > >
> > >
> > > - Abdul Kalam.
> > > (Bharat Ratna)
> > >
> > >
> > > Note : If you agree with Dr. Abdul Kalam Views,
> > > then
> > > please Pass this to your friends.
> > >
>
>
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