APJ Abdul Kalam

Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam – 'a 200 per cent Indian', as his colleagues call him, has made India proud in myriad ways. "We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream ! Conduct these dreams into thoughts, and then transform them into action," said the man who dreamt for India, and acted on its behalf to place her in the exclusive Space Club. He wove a first world dream for the third world nation. He is a vegetarian and teetotaler, who recites the Quran and the Bhagwad Gita with equal devotion and has an unparalleled career as a defense scientist to be crowned with the highest civilian award of India – The Bharat Ratna.