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You Are a Man of Peace ? But Why Are You Still Known as a Missile Man?
What is the Reason for Your Reaching Out to Children and Youth? Is It to Convey the Message That India Should Become a Developed Country?
Are You a Champion of "sarva Dharma Society"? Is Harmony of Religions a Dream or a Reality ?
Which is the Greatest Obstacle for India to Become a Developed Nation?
Which Phase of Your Life Do You Cherish Most ? As a Child? As a Scientist? Or as a President?
What is Your Expectation From the Present-day Students? How Do You Desire Them to Be?
What is the Future Goal of Your Life?
How Did You Feel When You Were Declared as President-designate?
What is the Secret of Your Success? Your Self-confidence or Your Efforts or Your Determination?
What is Your Opinion About the Achievements of Indian Scientists ?
Since H.e. President Has Worked as a Scientist for a Long Time and Has Been a Leader of a Research Organization, I Wanted to Ask Him, What Kind of Organizational Policies, Practices, Rewards, Culture Tend to Encourage or Motivate Research Scientists? What
Though India Has Such Giant Progress in the Field of Science and Technology We Still Are Ranked Very Low in the Human Resource Development Index. Is There Something Wrong in the Direction We Are Moving Ahead or Something Else ??
I Would Like to Have Your Opinion on Primary Education in India W.r.t the Follwoing Points. A) Whether the Primary Education Systems in India is Fare Enough and Adequate to Prepare the the Generations to Come in to Face the Challenges Posed to Them? B) if
In Most of Your Books You Have Acknowledged All the Minds Who Inspired You. Is There Any Single Person Whom You Want to Acknowledge Whole Heartedly at This Point of Time? Are You Really Happy Being a President? Or Being a Scientist?
I Feel That the Main Cause of the Backwardness of Our Nation is the Drastically Huge Population and It Has Been Realised for Decades Now but the Scenario Has Never Improved ( Rather Worsened and is Worsening) Because of the Ignorance of the Masses. Can On
?coming From a Background of Science and Technology and in Spite of the Sanctity That the Office Has, Are You Really at Home and Comfortable Being the President, I Ask This Because the Kind of Contrast the People in the Parliament With All Their Criminal
I Have Question "India Has Been Ranked at 21th Position in the Field of Science by a Renouned Servey Agency. Why We Are Still Out From the Group of Top 10?
Why there is discrepancy in facilities provided to research students in different institute? You say they belong to DST, CSIR, MHRD, DAE...etc. But all of them belong to the GOVT of India. Is not it? Where is the fault of the student?
Everywhere in Schools, Colleges and Institutes There Seems to Be a Hard Emphasis on Becoming Engineers, Scientists, Doctors, Managers Etc. At Any Cost. And There is Hardly Any Emphasis on Being Good Humans. Sometimes the Former is Achieved at the Cost of
Chow to Change My Actual Lifestyle? I Am Doing My Research Programme in the Field of Materials Science. Once I Finish My Research Programme From the Institute, I Will Go for My Post Doctoral Programme.i Will Stay in Abroad for Few Years and Then Come Back
You Fix a Goal. You Can Definitely Think of in What Field You Would Like to Make Your Contribution Which Will Provide Value Addition to the National Mission. Once You Have Decided on This Work Persistently to Achieve This Goal. If You Achieve Your Goal Co
I Am Basically From Agricultural Family, I Am From State of Tamil Nadu, in Our Country Percentage of People Involved in Agriculture is More, I See One Deficiency in Our Educational Institution Formed, There Are 250 Engg Colleges in Tamilnadu, Compared to
This is Information About the One Primary School in Indian Institute of Science Campus; There is One Primary Education School Near State Bank of India in Iisc. That School Doesn?t Have Enough Classrooms .so the Students Sit in Ground and Study, This is fo
There Has Been Considerable Talk on Falling Ethics in Indian Polity and How to Address This Issue. It is My Considered View That an Independent Judiciary Alone is Not Enough and There is a Strong Need to Have an Independent Investigating Agency and an Ind
In India, is Technology Transfer to Our Industries is Taking Place? If Not, Why? Without Technology Getting Transferred to Our Industries, is There Any Meaning to the Statement "We Are Going From a Developing Nation to a Developed Nation?
What is the Role of Human Values and Culture to Make and Visualise India a Developed Nation? And What Steps an Individual Has to Take in His Day to Day Living in This Line to Achieve This?
There Are No Great Inventions or Discoveries in the Fields of Science & Technology Over the Last One or Two Decades? What You Think is the Reason Behind? What Do You Suggest for the Progress of the Same?
What is the President's View Regarding Reservations in Field of Education, Which is Depriving the True Clever People Their Opportunity ?(I Am Specially Pointing to Reservations in Top Institutes Like Iisc,iits,aims ....).
How Do We Institutionalise Innovation in Our Country So That We Can Tap at the Vast Intellectual Potential of This Nation?
During the Last Election a Number of Us Had Voter Id Card, but Still Were Unable to Cast Our Vote Since Our Names Were Not in the List. Can You Within Your Powers Reduce This Errors.
I Work in the Field of Hydrology Using Satellite Images. We Are Finding It Very Time Consuming and Expensive to Get River Flow Data, Rainfall Data and Satellite Images of Different Resolutions and Time Scales of Our Country. Can You Make the Data Freely A
What in Your Opinion is Better for the Country- Students Going Abroad and Bringing Novel Technologies to the Country or Staying in India and Developing Newer Technologies?
What is the Special Message You Have for Our School and for Young Children of the Country?
India is Very Rich in Thorium Deposits. When is India Planning to Build Nuclear Power Plants Based on Thorium Fuel Cycle, Which is Virtually an Unlimited Resource of Energy for India?
Increasing Dependence on Imported Crude Oil & Gas for Energy Requirement Makes the Country Vulnerable to External Shocks. What is the Country?s Perspective Plan for Energy Security?
India is Planning an Unmanned Space Mission to the Moon in 2008. When Do You Think an Indian Would Be Able to Land on the Moon?
It is Said That Future Wars Will Be Fought Not for Territory, but for Water & Talent. What is the Country?s Perspective Future Plan for Water Management and Education?
The Demographic Growth Profile of the Country Indicates a Growing Young Population. What is the Country?s Plan to Gainfully Employ the Young?
The Demographic Growth Profile of the Country Indicates a Growing Young Population. What is the Country?s Plan to Gainfully Employ the Young?
What Do You Enjoy the Most ? Being the President of India or a Working Scientist?
How Does It Feel to Be the Head of State of the World?s Largest Democracy (Which Constitutes One-sixth of the Human Race) is It a Crushing Responsibility or a Golden Opportunity to Contribute to Policy Making?
What Other Things Do You Think is Necessary for Schools to Impart to Students Other Than Education So as to Help Them Face the Challenges of the World and Be a Better Citizen of the Country?
Can You Please Suggest Some Measure to Groom Our Students Into Young Scientist Which Will Help in Avoiding Brain Drain?
Why Do You Believe in Today?s Generation for Making India a Developed Country?
Gandhiji Dreamt of "Ram Rajya". How and When We Will Achieve It?
There Are So Many Distractions Today. How Can We Overcome This and Come Up to Hold Responsible Position as Students?
Is There Any Feasible Solutions to the Problem of Brain Drain, Whereby Educated and Developed Brains Are Leaving the Country in Large Numbers?
How Can India Become a Leader in the Field of Artificial Intelligence?
After the Kalpna Chawla Incident, How Safe Are the Astronauts and Their Spacecrafts in Space?
� There Are Many Efforts in India to Promote Indigenous System of Medicine. Modern Biology and Indigenous Medicine Are Being Symbiotically Connected and New Molecules Based on Indigenous Knowledge of Medicine Are Being Designed in India. Csir is Leading t
If Everyone is Educated Who Will Perform the So Called Low and Menial Jobs Such as Sweepers, Dhobis and So on. Do You Think That Education for All Can Solve All the Problems of the Society?
I Am Very Distressed to Note the State of Farmers Committing Suicides. We Also See That They Are Interested in Accepting New Technologies. We Would Be Grateful for Your Observation Regarding This Marriage of Agriculture With Technology?
Where Do We See Our Nation in the Next Twenty Years? Keeping in Mind the Acute Problems of Corruption, Population, Illiteracy and So on. How Can We as the Future of the Nation Help in the Development of Our Great Nation?
I Am a Student of Siksha-satra, the School at Srinikaten. We Are Actually Aware of the Problem of Child Labour, Which Seems to Be Increasing Day by Day. It is Also True, That the Government Has Taken Steps to Eradicate This Social Disease. As a Student Wh
We Know That 20 Million People Are Added to Our Country Every Year, but There Are Not Enough Institutes to Educate Them All. How, in Your Opinion, Sir, Can This Situation Be Changed?
In the Present Scenario, Higher Studies and Research Are Opened In the Present Scenario, Higher Studies and Research Are Opened Primarily to BrilPrimarily to Brilliant Students. How Can Average Students Thrive and Progress in Such a Competitive Situation?
Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore Laid Great Stress on the Role of Music in Education. Music We Know, Has Many Elevating Qualities Including Its Use in Therapy. As a Musician Yourself, What is Your Opinion About the Role of Music in Education?
I Am a Student of Vinaya Bhavana, the Institute of Education of Visva-bharati, I Am Aspire to Become a Teacher. What in Your Opinion Are the Qualities an Ideal Teacher Should Posses and What is the Role of Such a Teacher in the Development of Modern Worl
I Am Pained to Notice That Infrastructural Shortcomings Have Hindered Optimal Utilization of Available Talent in Scientific Research. A Host of Meritorious Students of Science Are Compelled to Look for Employment Immediately on Completion of Higher Educat
I Have Heard That Nuclear Experiments Are Harmful. How Can Nuclear Power Be Used Safely and for the Welfare of the Humanity?
In Your Book, Wings of Fire, You Have Quoted Milton Auden, Shaw, Khalil Gibran and Other Writers Who Have Given You a Clearer Insight Into Life. Keeping This in Mind, I Would Like to Know How, in Your Opinion, Sir, Students of Literature and the Arts Can
is There Any Utility of the Ammunition Technique Which Was Used in the Great Wars of Ramayana and Mahabharata in the Present Context?
Molecule and Atom Are Described in Sanskrit Books. Can There Be Any Coordination in the Present Atomic Theory?
We Are Taught That Vedmantra Sounds Have Great Power. Can It Be Proved by Scientific Instruments?
Most of the Countries in the World Study Science in Their Own Language. Is It Not Possible in India?
How Much Relevant in the Consumer Era of Today is the Nishkam Karmayog of Gita?
Our Excellency, What Motivated You to Become a Scientist?
Your Excellency, What Kind of Future Do You Foresee for the Indian Youth?
Your Excellency, What Has Been the Proudest Moment of Your Life?
Your Excellency, How Does St. George's Remind You of Your Own School Days?
Your Excellency, Who Has Influenced You the Most?
1. Dear Mr. President Dr. Kalam, for Kabir, Who is Four and Half and Wants to Know Why the Sun is So Hot and What Holds the Moon Up in the Sky.
Does Science Prove the Existence of God or Science Proves the Non-existence of God?
We Are Advancing in Science and Technology but Why Peace is Not Advancing?
How Can India Succeed in Sports Competitions Like Olympics?
What is Your View on India Becoming a Super Power?
What Strategies Were Adopted in Achieving Excellence in Information Technology?
Education Particularly Higher Education Has Become Very Expensive in India. We Cannot Afford That What You Can Do About It?
Why is the Earth Big and Moon Small?
Can You Explain to Me What is the Difference Between Conservative and Non-conservative Force Field?
The Education System Today is Just One Dimensional, Strenuous and Faulty. If It Affects the All Round Development of the Child, Then How Will They Grow Up to Contribute to the Progress of the Nation?
With Every Passing Year, Our Country is Producing Thousands and Thousands of Graduates Who Are Unemployed and Who Are Frustrated. How Can the Country Get Rid of Such a Threat?
India?s Failure to Olympics is Due to the Lackluster Sports Meet and Tournaments at Different Levels in India or is It the Failure of the Sports Policy or is It Because of Political Indulgence?
India Has Such a Rich Human Resource. Then Why is It That We Fare Poorly in the Sporting Events? Why Doesn?t the Government Plug This Snag and Develop Sports?
Will the Open Book System Really Help the Students to Be Creative and Innovative in the Existing Conditions?
How Do You Look at Your Teachers Who Taught You? Whose Influence Has Been Instrumental in Making What You Are Today? Is It Those, Who Taught You Discipline ? Jalaluddin, Shamsuddin or Those Who Taught You Seek Knowledge Like Ramakrishna Iyengar, T.n. Shek
Why don?t we strictly implement Family Planning Programme to check Population Explosion?
Should We Not Have the Right to Recall Our Elected Representatives or Have the Option of None of the Above on the Ballot Paper?
Can We Stop the War Inside Our Hearts in Our Society?
What Are You Going to Do About Corrupt Political Leaders?
How Can We Control Our Population?
One of India?s Strengths Has Been Its Spirituality. What is Your Advice of Retaining Spirituality as India Progresses and Becomes More Materialistic?
As a Leader of a Billion People What Have You Found in Your Experience to Inspire to Make People Think of the Nation?s Interest Ahead of Their Interest?
I Feel That Nations That Are Strong in Today?s World Have a Certain Degree of Technological Superiority Over Other Nations. What Need to Be Done in India to Encourage the Development of Superior Technology and What is the Government?s Role in That?
What Steps is India Taking for Encouraging Foreign Investment, Trade and Business?
Can You Tell Us About the Movement to Stem Corruption in India?
I Was Born and Educated in India and Have Now Been in the U.s. For the Past Ten Years. I Find That People in India Do Not Have a Sense of Ownership About Their Cities, There is No Pride. How Can We Get More Civic Participation?
I Have Been Traveling in Northern India Over the Past Month and I Have Found That There is Lot of Investment Needed for Physical Infrastructure, but the People Do Not Seem to Want to Take Care of Their Immediate Environment. There is a Lot of Trash Around
Don?t You Think That Teachers Should Get Better Pay for Financial Security?
AT what age did you first think of an idea of change?

DR. A.P.J. Abdul KalamFORMER PRESIDENT OF INDIATerm of Office: 25th July 2002 - 25th July 2007

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