Name: Deepak D. Upadhyhay

Temp ID: T06D16MCA044MCA Sem.-3

Book NameYou Are Born To

Blossom

Basic Information about Book

• This book published in 2008 by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam & Arun K Tiwari

• Dr. Kalam says of these book that is “Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.”

Basic Points of Book

• This book is an account of how Dr. Kalam visualizes information and Communication Technology mining the rural talent.

• This book present Dr. Kalam's dream of schools in India at  year 2020, he seen the new future of teaching with using technology to connecting Teachers, Students & Communities.

• 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.

About Author

• Bharat Ratna Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, generally known as Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, was the 11th President of India (2002-2007). He was elected against Lakshmi Sehgal in 2002 and had support from both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Indian National Congress, the two leading parties of Indian politics. By profession he was a scientist and an administrator in India. He worked with Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as an aerospace engineer before becoming the President of India. His work on the development of launch vehicle and ballistic missile technology had earned him the name of the 'Missile Man of India'.

• Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was the visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore; the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. 

• In his book 'India 2020', he recommended plans to make the nation a fully developed one by the year 2020. His interactions with the student community and his motivational speeches made him quite popular among the youth. In 2011, he launched a mission called 'What Can I Give Movement' aimed at the youth of India, which focused on defeating corruption in the country.

This book has 8 different topics like1. The Wooing of Grain and Clay2. In the Childhood Garden3. The Treble of Heaven’s Harmony4. Living is Doing5. Flowering of the Mind6. Nurturing a Garden7. Specks in Brownian Motion8. Education as a Spiritual Journey

• The examples that are given in this book is the real life story about Albert Einstein, Thomas Alva Edison, Isaac Newton, Franklin, Bill Gates, CV Raman, Charles Darwin their life, how they took decision, what is their success story.. everything would teach you something, that will definitely going to help you in future. • Our Education system should re-align itself at the earliest to meet the needs of the present day challenges and be fully geared to participate in societal transformation through innovation, which is the key to competitiveness.

• When you do something, you should burn yourself completely , like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

•A nation is great not because a few people are great, but because everyone in the nation is great. He visualize a Web of Life holding together and feeding the grass-root of our Society with nutrients of our technological strength and industrial prosperity.

• Do not set goal by what people consider important. Only you know what is best for you.

• Amazingly written much hopes of creative awareness about the strengths of knowledge.

• It refurbish the missing link in the modus operation of the idea lists and the global in achieving their goals .

•The speedy and substantial progress of the Information and Communication Technology.

•It wide possibilities at its disposal have been highlighted as the key factor for this specific purpose.

• The book encompasses the different stages of human life.•  It emphasise on the common goal of unearthing the

tremendous resources.• support systems implicit in the field of education.• It mentions about the school days of Dr. Kalam and his

friend Kota Harinarayana (former chief of Indias Light Combat Aircraft Development Programme) when vision and inspiration were the only tools to keep the fire of aspiration burning in a not-so advanced educational system.

•  The book delves into the vivid life events of Dr. Kalam, which have taken him through varied corners of the country. 

• Moreover, He recognised a prime necessity for the perfect fusion of quality education and proper guidance.

• The book serves its purpose well in inspiring young minds.• It opens the doors of creative perception and pour out

their latent skills when they are most needed for national growth. 

• While education is the most powerful instrument in building a stable and mature society.

•  every reader must realise how best to utilise the available resources in fulfilling higher responsibility.