The first time I read about someone called APJ Abdul Kalam was in the fifth standard as there was a chapter on him in our English textbooks. You won’t even believe what my concern was then, as I casually read though the chapter. How would I ever remember his full name? Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, that was indeed long. But little did we know that his achievement list was way longer. Accidently in the same very year my grandmother gifted me a copy of ‘Wings of Fire’ from the book fair and it then I realized who the 11 th President of India actually was. As I read more about his works and subsequently learnt more about his humbleness, I realized that it he who defined actually a ‘Bharat Ratna’ is. As kids, we encountered this question very often as to who do we aspire to be when we grow up. The answer by the end of fifth grade for me was clearly Dr. Kalam. In fact, my I used to tell my best friends, Pallab and Jyotirmoy that the initials of our name resembled Dr....