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- Its an honor sir to be in the same room with you. What you have done for our country is impeccable. And I would like to ask you a few questions.
- Thank you young Padawan, lets move forward with the interview.
- For the young, to-be aerospace scientists, as inspiration, what was your biggest achievement?
- In 1969 I moved to the Indian Space Research Organization, where I was project director of the SLV-III, the first satellite launch vehicle that was both designed and produced in India. Rejoining DRDO in 1982, I planned the program that produced a number of successful missiles, which helped me earn the nickname “Missile Man.” Among those successes was Agni, India’s first intermediate-range ballistic missile, which incorporated aspects of the SLV-III and was launched in 1989.
- From 1992 to 1997 I was scientific adviser to the defense minister, and I later served as principal scientific adviser (1999–2001) to the government with the rank of cabinet minister.
- What did you do after your massive success?
- In 2002 India’s ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) put me to succeed outgoing President Kocheril Raman Narayanan.I was nominated by the Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) NDA even though I was Muslim, and my stature and popular appeal were such that even the main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, also proposed his candidacy. I easily won the election and was sworn in as India’s 11th president, a largely ceremonial post, in July 2002. I left office at the end of his term in 2007 and was succeeded by Pratibha Patil, the country’s first woman president.
- My prominent role in the country’s 1998 nuclear weapons tests solidified India as a nuclear power and established me as a national hero, although the tests caused great concern in the international community. In 1998 I put forward a countrywide plan called Technology Vision 2020, which I described as a road map for transforming India from a less-developed to a developed society in 20 years. The plan called for, among other measures, increasing agricultural productivity, emphasizing technology as a vehicle for economic growth, and widening access to health care and education.
- Thank you so much sir for your valuable time, it was truly an honor.
- No problem but that's it for me, bye.
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