

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
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mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Product Description</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:
EN-IN">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.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
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line-height:normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:
&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN">Avul
Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN"> was born into a Muslim
family on October 15, 1931, on the island of Dhanushkodi off the southeastern coast
of India. He was an aerospace scientist who joined India^s defense department
after graduating from the Madras Institute of Technology. He was a central
figure in the development of the country^s nuclear capabilities and was hailed
as a national hero after a series of successful tests in 1998. Kalam served as
India^s president for one term from 2002 to 2007, and died of a heart attack on
July 27, 2015.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
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