"Determine that things can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."
Abraham Lincoln


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INDIA, akan segera menjadi kekuatan Superpower di masa datang bersama China. India juga telah nyaris menguasai salahsatu industri terpenting di dunia, industri Information Technology.

India, adalah salahsatu bangsa terbesar dunia berpenduduk lebih dari 1 Milyar. Tidak hanya sangat besar, seperti juga China, India juga sangat berambisi menjadi bangsa terunggul dalam bidang Sains dan Teknologi. Sekarang India, karena kamajuan industri Computer Software-nya yang sangat cepat, mereka diperkirakan akan segera mengungguli Amerika. (Baca pernyataan Bill Gates, Chairman Microsoft, “Technology investments will make India an economic and software superpower”).

"Indomitable Spirit", adalah karya Abdul Kalam, Mantan Presiden India 2002-2007. Ini adalah buku yang akan menjadi pedoman besar dalam menciptakan bangsa India yang sangat unggul. Abdul Kalam sendiri adalah ahli dalam bidang teknologi roket, dan bermimpi India akan menjadi salahsatu bangsa yang pertamakali mengirim manusia ke Planet Mars. Melihat kemajuan India sekarang, ini bukan sesuatu yang mustahil.

Lihat ketajaman visi dalam point-point penting buku "Indomitable Spirit".

1. Inspiring Lives
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she hold or the work he or she performs.

2. My Teachers
Give me a child for seven years, afterwards, let the God or the devil take the child, they cannot change the child.

3. The Mission of Education
When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms, when creativity blossoms, thinking emanates, when thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit, when knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

4. Creativity and Innovation
An ignited mind is the most powerful resource on earth, above the earth and under the earth.

5. Art and Literature
Art is a benign expression of the inner beauty in nature. Be it a cartoon, sculpture or literary composition, it elavates the beautiful spirit of life for everyone to see and enjoy. Such a spirit silently but eloquently conveys the message of love, humour, affection, and peace ..."

6. Abiding Values
See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. It gives to all, gives freely of its love and, when its work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all its qualities.

7. Science and Spirituality
Science is the best boon (advantage) that God has bestowed upon mankind. Science with reasoning becomes the capital of society... The convergence of science and technology with spirituality is touted to be the future for both science and technology, and spirituality.

8. Tomorrow's Citizens
If India has to become developed by 2020, it will do so only by riding on the shoulders of the young.

9. Empowered Women
When women are empowered, a society with stability is assured. Gone are the days when women were considered subservient or secondary in almost all walks of life compared to men. It has now amply been proved that women are capable of executing any job as efficiently as men, if not more so.

10. Towards a Knowledge Society
Knowledge has always been the prime mover of prosperity and power. The acquisition of knowledge has been the thrust area throughout the world and sharing the experience of knowledge is a unique culture of our country.

11. Building a Developed India
We should all create a nation that is one of the best places to live in on this earth and which brings smiles to billion faces.

12. Enlightened Citizenship
Enlightened citizenship has three components: education with value system, religion transforming into spiritual force, and creating economic prosperity through development.

13. Creative Leadership
Creative leadership is exercising the task to change the traditional role from commander to coach, from manager to mentor, from director to delegator and from one who demands respect to one who facilitates self-respect.

14. Indomitable Spirit
A section containing chapter-wise references, 177 in number, complete the book.


Beberapa Catatan :

  • Abdul Kalam dianggap salahsatu presiden terbesar India dan sangat dekat dengan rakyat, The People's President.

  • Dia adalah seorang profesor, saintis, dan insinyur. Dia juga adalah seorang presiden India yang paling visioner.

  • Abdul Kalam adalah seorang presiden India yang beragama Islam.

  • 30 september 2001, helikopter yang ditumpanginya mengalami kecelakaan, walaupun ia cedera serius, ia berhasil selamat. Ketika berada dalam keadaan koma, ia bermimpi berada di sebuah padang pasir yang sangat luas dan ia bertemu 5 tokoh besar dunia, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Kaisar Asoka (Kaisar terbesar India di masa lalu), Abraham Lincoln, dan Khalifah Umar.
  • Buku-bukunya terutama "Guiding Souls" dan "Wings of Fire" sangat populer di kalangan remaja di Korea Selatan.
  • Tanggal 20 November lalu dia berkunjung ke Jakarta dan berkunjung ke Gandhi Memorial International School di Jakarta. Disana ia bertanya kepada murid-muridnya, "Siapa yang ingin pergi ke Mars?" (Dikutip dari Harian Kompas).

  • Ini beberapa pointer pernyataannya : "Anak-anak muda perlu memiliki 3 hal, pengetahuan, kebajikan, dan semangat", "Hanya dengan memanfaatkan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi, persoalan negara bisa terpecahkan", "Pendidikan, adalah jalan terbaik untuk mengatasi kemiskinan, dan membawa negara kita menjadi negara maju."


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