He said, “The course of the journey, in the Quran, explains life as a moral journey. Kalam explained to me the metaphor of life as a journey that is given form in the Quran. Finally, the book emerged as pure gold (as Bhawani Prasad Chattopadhyay wrote in ‘The Statesman’).ĭr. Finally, we wrote 340 pages, which, on second thoughts, he cut down to about 200, removing the portions wherein he shared his conflicts with people. Then I would give him the manuscript, which he would return at the next session with corrections, sometimes even rejecting the entire material. He was in Delhi and I was at Hyderabad, so each session would happen after many months. There were no laptops then and I would take notes. Madhu Reddy of University Press stood by me and even gave the book its title.ĭr.
APJ Abdul Kalam to share his story, stopping people close to him from inserting their own agendas into the book and finally, my own inadequacies as a writer. It took me close to six years to write this book, overcoming the resistance of Dr. Swaminathan, namely, ‘Super Vision’ (DESIDOC, 1988), ‘Broken Bones Don’t Kill, Broken Hopes Do’ (Wiley Eastern, 1992) and ‘Kindling Creativity’ (DESIDOC, 1996).
This book was my fourth one and the first to attract acclaim, the first three being with R.
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