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10 Facts you should know about APJ Abdul Kalam, India's Missile Man

New Delhi: Former President A P J Abdul Kalam was among the few Indian personalities in contemporary India who won the admiration of one and all cutting across every section of society.Known as the father

1. Kalam was popularly known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology.

2. His father, a humble boat owner, Jainulabdeen, was a devout Muslim and a close friend of the Rameswaran temple priest.

3. Kalam was brought up in a multi-religious, tolerant society; one with a progressive outlook.

4. Kalam used to get up at 4 am, bathe, and then go for his mathematics class, which was taught by a teacher who took only five students in the whole session; and bathing before class was a condition he had laid to all his students.

5. Although Kalam has led several projects in his professional life, he's treated each like his last. 

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