Kalam on Balam (strength)- The Tamil poet speaks.
Kalam says that strength respects strength. The Paki's Nuclear mission is a Suicide nuclear strike, meaning Pakistan will be blown up in the process. We all know how Suicide mission goes? Yes, the mission has new synonym: Homicide mission. Musharaff and his minions know it. Whom is he trying to bluff?
Our nuclear policy stems from confidence: Kalam
By Manas Dasgupta
ANAND (Gujarat) APRIL 12. The former scientific adviser to the Prime Minister, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, today made light of the Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf's threat of a nuclear war against India "if pushed to a corner.''
Pointing out that India's nuclear policy continued to be "no first use'', the father of the country's guided missile technology said such a policy stemmed from "confidence''. India could adhere to such a policy because
of its confidence that it could reply four-times stronger if nuclear weapons were ever used against it by Pakistan.
Dr. Kalam — who delivered the 21st convocation address at the Institute of Rural management, Anand (IRMA) and later addressed a media conference — brushed aside a question whether he would be a candidate for the presidential elections.
Narrating his encounter with a 10-year-old boy this morning when he was visiting the Anandalaya school on the National Dairy Development Board campus before the IRMA convocation, Dr. Kalam said the boy's question as to "who is our enemy'' was an eye-opener. Incidentally, it was another boy of the same class who gave the answer, "poverty''.
Till 1947, India's "vision'' was to get freedom from foreign yoke. The country where 300 million people lived below the poverty line should now develop a second vision — a fight against poverty. This could be achieved by at least doubling the growth of the gross domestic product, from the present 4.5 per cent to nine per cent in agriculture and food processing, education and healthcare, and infrastructural development among other fields.
Advising the IRMA graduates on leadership qualities, Dr. Kalam narrated an incident when he was the mission director of the satellite launch vehicle project. In the first attempt in 1979 when the mission failed and the first launch vehicle plunged into the Bay of Bengal, the entire responsibility for the failure was absorbed by the then Indian Space Research Organisation chairman, Satish Davan. But the credit for the success of the mission a year later was given to him (Dr. Kalam) and his team.
"This is the invisible leadership quality that absorbs all the blames but shares the success with others,'' he said.
He said the doyen of India's space mission, Vikram Sarabhai, synthesised science and spiritualism and managed to get land for setting up the space research station at Thumba in the sixties. The site fitted his requirement nearest to the Equator but both the Kerala and the Central Governments ruled out the possibility of allocating it because a church existed there.
Still he could get the land because both Dr. Sarabhai and Fr. Peter Perreira of the church were visionaries and did not allow religion to come on the way of development. |
