Salute to APJ sir ....

    APJ Abdul Kalaam …One name every Indian will remember in their lifetime. Every time his image flashes in your mind it brightens our face and enlightens our mind. As came in one of the media we have not lived during Gandhi, Nehru times but we can be proud we lived in APJ Kalaam era. No other politician or a public figure created this much of disturbance in the minds of the public. Any Indian should pay tribute to this man who dedicated his life to our nation..an artist drew paintings to pay his tribute ..TV channels dedicated programs to pay their tribute ….Bus companies offered free trips to rameswaram …I feel a small blog to the humble man will be my true tribute ….

  

  First and foremost I am indebted to APJ sir on a personal level since during my early days to cultivate reading habit I bought one of his famous books ‘Wings of fire’. This is where I started to enjoy autobiographies. There should be something struck in his mind which is why he loves Mother India so much and how lucky the nation is to have such a person dwell all through his life. He is one of the rare Indians who was born in India, brought up in India, worked for India all through his life. His accomplishments are just recognitions but his biggest contribution is towards the youth of the nation by creating a positive impact. He could have converted his talents into Euros, dollars or any currency but rupee is the currency he cherished.

    

 One of the amazing traits of APJ sir was he earned so much of good will and not even an iota of enmity; When you are the president of the nation there would have arisen number of occasions where you are forced to do something against your wish, on interview with media sometimes questions get tricky and the way it gets published would be with lots of twists and turns, when you are a scientist some tough decisions had to be taken keeping the bigger picture in mind, pressure from political parties is also one must go through. So it is never easy to please everyone when you are public figure like APJ sir and it is a daunting task to come out clean from all of this. Has APJ earned one enemy? Has he earned any betrayal? Has he earned any enmity with his peers? Even a kid can answer any of these questions.

    Now look at the house of APJ sir, his relatives, his wealth etc., It is difficult to believe how a human being can be so humble and simple. He gets only books as gifts, earned his living from his salary and patents, donated quite a bit of his wealth to charity. When the society is running behind Apple vs Samsung there are also human beings who doesn’t own a mobile. Every single politician should be embarrassed looking into APJ sir’s life. HE doesn’t even want a national holiday on his death instead he wanted people to work. Because he didn’t have any enmity he was able to address public gathering more freely without worrying about security protocols. His gesture to talk to Jawaan since he was standing in the gypsy as part of the security protocol touched me. He wanted his last breadth to be while teaching and naturally with no suffering whatsoever when he was addressing the students he collapsed and bid adieu to whole world. One of his wishes is to celebrate his brother's 100th birthday next year and hope his dream comes true. 

    My next visit to Rameswaram I will visit the temple and also definitely visit his burial place and pay my respects. Any recognition we do for this man like a national holiday on honor of his birthday, stamp release, having his face embedded on indian rupee, Museum dedicated towards his work for nation etc., will not be sufficient. His dream was to make our nation superpower and if the nation can work towards that goal especially the Youth then I am sure he will be a happy man. May his soul rest in peace and am sure heaven is much more glorified now upon his entry.