The kalam effect... Review

I bought this book at Crosswords, chennai. Took the book to the Brio cafe inside crossword and read the whole book in 1.5 hours. The book is written by Shri. P.M.Nair , who was the secretary to Dr.APJ.Abdul Kalam when he was president. The book gives the insider information about a lot of events happened in those 5 years. It sheds light on the humane side of a great individual, scientist and a patriot to the core.

Some of the incidents are very touching. Like this one...

One small girl from Agra written to the president saying that " Uncle we have only one park in our city and in that park, only one swing and that swing is not working for the past 10 days and nobody cares. Please see to that it is repaired" . A very humble, silly request from just another citizen of this country.

If some one else was there in that position as Dr.Kalam was, this letter would not even have reached the desk and directly to the trash. But because it was Dr.Kalam , it reached his desk , read upon, action taken. The swing was repaired very soon.
The girl replied to him and thanked him.

If only we had more people like Dr.Kalam manning the north and south blocks in delhi.....


The book is very readable and a good one. I would give * * * stars out of five

Chennai Trip

Went to chennai for the weekend after a long break . I usually avoid the summer time to visit chennai for obvious reasons. I thought the weather would be nice at this time of the year. Man , i was wrong. It was very humid,hot even when it is raining. The roads get clogged or muddied all through the city. It was nice time with shankar and family. I started missing Gokul already even with all of his idiosyncrasies. We compensated that with a long 2 hour conference call along with shekar. I was in landmark all the time and speaking to them.

One major difference i found between chennai and bengaluru is "Courtesy". People in bangalore are more courteous than chennai . (Some might dispute that. But having lived in both the places for considerable time, i would stick to my comments). Met esh, it was really nice just being with him. Such a nice chap. Old friends are really gold friends. :)