A short paragraph on Dr A. P. J. Kalam

 Dr A. P. J. Kalam was the son of an imam, a simple fisherman. He was born in Rameswaram on 15 October 1931. He went on to become the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was widely acclaimed as the 'People's President' and was particularly fond of children and youth and made himself approachable to them at all times.He was a student of Physics and aerospace engineering. He was a scientist and science administrator mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for nearly four decades. He was intimately involved in India's civilian Indian space programme and military missile development efforts. He is famous as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974. He was the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Bharat Ratna in 1997, India's highest civilian honour. Amongst his writings, the most famous are "Transcendence : My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji', and 'India 2020'. While delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Management, Shillong, Kalam collapsed and died from an apparent cardiac arrest on 27 July 2015, aged 83. Thousands including national-level dignitaries attended the funeral ceremony held in his hometown of Rameswaram, where he was buried with full state honours.

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