Publication date 1999 Media type Print () Pages 180 (paperback edition) (paperback edition) Q143.A197 A3 1999 Wings of Fire: An Autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam (1999), former. It was written by Dr. Kalam examines his early life, effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that eventually led him to lead Indian space research, nuclear and missile programs. Kalam started his career, after graduating from Aerospace engineering at, at and was assigned to build a prototype.

Later he moved to and helped establish the and pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program. During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program, with particular successes in thermonuclear weapons development culminating in the operation and an. Kalam died on 27 July 2015, during a speech at in,. Contents • • • • • • • Translations [ ] The autobiography first published in English, has so far been translated and published in 13 languages including, English,,,,,,. Outside of the major, Wings of Fire was translated into (titled Huo Yi, by Ji Peng), and translated into. Structure [ ] Wings of Fire unfolds the story of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam from his childhood in the following seven sections: • Preface • Introductions • Orientation • Creation • Propitiation • Contemplation • Epilogue Kalam was born in 1931, the son of a little-educated boat owner in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. His father was also the imam of the small mosque in Rameswaram.

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He had an unparalleled career as a defence scientist, culminating the highest civilian award of India, Bharat Ratna. As a chief of the country's defence research and development programmer, Kalam demonstrated a great potential for dynamics and innovations that existed in seemingly moribund research establishment. This is the story of Kalam's own rise from obscurity and his personal and professional struggles, as well as the story of AGNI, TRISHUL and NAG missiles that have become household names in India and that have raised the nation to the level of a missile power of international reckoning. Since independence, India has sought in various ways, to self-realization, and to adulation and success. The book begins with the childhood of Kalam's life.

In the beginning, he introduces us to his family and tries to familiarize us with his birthplace Rameswaram. In the childhood, he was a great admirer of his father, Jainulabdeen.