President A P J Abdul Kalam: Day by Day Historical Study, 2002-2004 (Volume I)

This Historical select study lists the main events in the personal and public life of one of the distinguished and outstanding visionary scientist-thinkers of the world–the eleventh President of India–Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, is for all, at home and abroad. The book provides insights into known-unknown facets of Kalam’s multinational personality and fascinating life–the father-figure of Indian heritage, culture and science–known the world over– a leader of character. The basic purpose of this monumental research work is to enumerate pin-pointed and briefly, in order of time, the notable day-by-day events connected with the Indian missile and technoscientific man of mission and vision, Professor Kalam, right from the day his name was proposed for the Presidential candidate for the world’s largest democratic nation to date: Volume one. Though the events in the following pages of the select account date from 9 June 2002 to 31 July 2004, the Introduction to this work does include events pertaining to Dr Kalam’s early life onwards to 9 June 2002, and, thus, attempts to complete this first volume of the project right from his birth to date. On reading the introduction–which covers the period up to October 2005–one may imagine the humanitarian Kalam as revealed in a close relation of science and technology as a man of wisdom. Extensive coverage, abstracts and annotations have tremendously enhanced the utility of this volume. Each entry has been numbered. An exhaustive subject index, as a key to this work, makes it handy and adds to its research and reference value. The work, quite evident from its thought-contents, is to serve as a unique record of historical importance for both present and future generations to have a ready glimpse of the life account of the President Dr Kalam– the remarkable exemplary personality of the age. Such an invaluable and handy reference document will definitely prove as a useful research tool for the professionals as well as the general readers, the scholars and the students besides information and library scientists in the form of a digest. A comprehensive laborious research endeavour, As first of its kind on Dr Kalam, will undoubtedly be worth-while as a basic reference tool for international scholars and, thus, will help them to do more and more research on the numerous endeavours of Dr. Kalam on a variety of his deeds, thoughts, missions and visions. No library, organization or even an individual, in India and abroad, can afford to miss the acquisition of such an indispensable research study–elaborately annotated, giving vivid description of events, this monumental work will be of great interest to scholars and lay readers alike–encyclopedic work of global interest surely enriches the literature on President A P J Abdul Kalam in a good measure.