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TopicDr APJ Abdul Kalam

Topic: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Rising numbers of unemployed graduates will destabilise social structure: Kalam at UGC event

On 28 December 2003, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam delivered an address to mark the 50th anniversary of the UGC in New Delhi, outlining the role of the education sector and universities in national development.

PM museum expands AI legacy project with Abdul Kalam hologram. ‘Gandhi could be next’

The museum is preparing to unveil the hologram in November. Officials say that the first 'holobox' of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel has been drawing 25 to 30 visitors daily.

ThePrint Quiz, 27 July, 2025: Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

On his 10th death anniversary, find out how much you know about Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, by taking this edition of ThePrint Quiz.

Kalam didn’t want to be called ‘power-hungry’. He refused a second term without consensus

In 'Kalam: The Untold Story', R.K. Prasad, who was the former president's private secretary from 1993 to 2015, shows us a vulnerable Kalam.

Not just Pranab Mukherjee, Mahatma Gandhi and Abdul Kalam too attended RSS events

From Mahatma Gandhi to A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the RSS has continuously invited leaders of different affiliations to address its events in its 93-old history.

It’s the highest office

APJ Abdul Kalam had a politician's tact, thick skin and magnanimity. He would make a pretty solid politician.

Kalam’s banana republic

Science is rational, transparent business. It should be open to competition and peer review. Wrap it in the tricolour, and you legitimise mediocrity.

His Rashtrapati reward

Adulation for Kalam as President will be short-lived. The rest of us will soon learn to treat him like a mortal instead of worshipping him.

The story behind why President Kalam sat on the floor while we sat on chairs

Chief Guest Kalam, in front row, got involved in a debate on media ethics, got so animated, he hauled himself on to the stage & intervened, seated on the floor!

Merely angry, Left-secular activism can’t defeat Modi

By choosing fury over fact, delusion over reason, passion over politics, Modi's enemies — beginning with the Congress — make Gujarat politics a one-horse race

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.