“To have a flourishing life, breathe the thoughts of success and You will be a success.”
-“Ignited Minds”, A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.
Book:- Ignited Minds
Writer:- A.P.J.Abdul Kalam
No.of pages:- 180
Genre:- Biography, Inspirational fiction
“Ignited Minds” is an inspirational fiction written by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, our former and one of the most influential presidents of India in order to Kindle the fire of knowledge in youth. In this book, the missile man has shared his dream of future developed India and some effective ideas and opportunities that are necessary to build a developed nation equally in all fronts.
About the Author:-
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was born on 15th October,1931 in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and belonged to a religious family of a famous religious town. After completing schooling from Schwartz Higher Secondary School, he joined Saint Joseph’s college and the university of Madraz from where he passed out as a physics graduate in 1954. Then he attended Madraz Institute of Technology to study space engineering in 1955. He spent the next four decades in ISRO & DRDO and accquired the title of ‘missile man’.
Some of his well known books are- “Transcendence: my spiritual experience with Pramukh Swamiji”, “Wings of Fire“, “India 2020“, “The Righteous Life“,”You are Unique” etc.
Why I Picked up this Book?
I find self-help and inspirational books magical for my daily life and there is no better option to me to start every morning with the valuable messages of inspirational books than anything else. So, the book’s genre has attracted me, I must say.
This book is suggested by my father who knows very well that I am an admirer of Kalam sir and this is my first book of Kalam I have ever read.
Being very much motivated after reading his quotes and several articles, I can’t resist myself to go through this book in which he has shared the vital ideas to develop a nation.
Theme:-
We witness the inspiring and uplifting attitude of Kalam for those people who want to live their lives within a limitation and lack the tendency to accept challenge in life when we traverse through the pages of the book. Here, Dr. Kalam shares some of his valuable experiences of life and interactions with people from different spheres; including school and college students,eminent scientists, visionaries,sages and industrialists. This book is divided into 9 chapters and each chapter starts with a quote and ends with a summary which have made the chapters easily comprehensive and interesting and help the readers to have a glance of Kalam’s ‘can do’ attitude even at his age whereas people curl their lips when it seems to apply some changes for the development of future India.
He was a visionary who noticed the vast potential in youth to reap fruits for our country and regarded the young generation as the source of success and energy to bring an effective change in our mother India.
The book is highly recommended for everyone of India and specifically for children to let them aware of their duty for the welfare of nation.
What I liked in this book?
- The language of the book is very easy and comprehensive and that’s why you can enjoy it keeping your dictionary aside.
- Here, Kalam sir has shared the importance of spiritual growth along with the progress in the field of infrastructure, technology and science.
- Being a youth, I have greatly enjoyed and felt motivated by his words which he used to encourage the young generation for the development of India in this book.
Now, I want to conclude this blog with some of my favourite quotes from this book:-
- “Dream, Dream, Dream
Dreams transform into thoughts
And thoughts result in action.”
- For the society to prosper there are two important needs. They are: prosperity through wealth generation and cherishing the value system of the people. The combination of the two will make the Nation truly strong and prosperous.
- Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. – Goethe
- I do not care for liberation, I would rather go to a hundred thousand hells,’doing good to others (silently) like the spring’, this is my religion. – Swami Vivekananda
- Determine that things can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. – Abraham Lincoln
Arghadipa Chakraborty 
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