NP? "An order of strength and thundering of fire."

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Fri Jul 19 12:00:58 CDT 2002



http://www.guardian.co.uk/kashmir/Story/0,2763,757782,00.html
Missile Man cruises into Indian presidency
Lack of political experience proves no bar to the father of the country's
nuclear weapons programme

[...]  Dr Kalam espouses a broad approach to religion and rarely describes
himself as a Muslim. He is known for being able to recite with ease from
Muslim and Hindu holy scriptures. He is a vegetarian and is unmarried.

His background has also endeared him to India's many millions of poor
people. The country's new president is the son of an illiterate boatman in
Tamil Nadu, and started his education at a village school. He got a degree
in aeronautical engineering and rose to the top of his profession. He now
strongly advocates a scientific education for children.

Asked who would act as his first lady, he waved away the question saying,
"No, no, I'm a brahmacharya " - the Hindu word for someone who has given up
worldly pleasures including sex and marriage.


http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/kalam1.html
"Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is not just another Dr Strangelove having a torrid
affair with the bomb. He is clever, sensitive, amazingly creative and,
above all, a soft spoken patriot. India's answer to Western technological
arrogance. "

http://www.lokpriya.com/personalities/scientists/kalam.html
"He seems to have come straight out of a comic book. "

http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/kalam.html

"Dreams float on an impatient wind, A wind that wants to create a new
order. An order of strength and thundering of fire." -- from a poem written
by Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam





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