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BOOK REVIEW– ADAMYA SAHAS BY APJ KALAM

Indomitable Spirit is a book authored by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the former president of India. The cover
page of the book says it "brings together the values, thoughts and ideas of President Kalam as reflected
in his speeches and addresses. Interspersed with interesting anecdotes and observations, Indomitable
Spirit represents the quintessential APJ Abdul Kalam - the man, the scientist, the teacher and the Presi-
dent."

The book begins with reproduction of a sentence from President's address to the nation on the eve of
57th Republic Day: "The basis of all systems, social or political, rests upon the goodness of men. No na-
tion is great or good because parliament enacts this or that, but that its men are great and good."The
book ends with these words of Sir C. V. Raman, the Nobel laureate from his address to a group of young
graduates in 1969: "I can assert without fear of contradiction that the quality of the Indian mind is equal to
the quality of any Teutonic, Nordic or Anglo-Saxon mind. What we lack is perhaps courage, what we lack
is perhaps the driving force which takes one anywhere. We have, I think, developed an inferiority com-
plex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit."

BOOKS ARE EVER BURNING LAMPS OF WISDOM

ABOUT THE BEST INDIAN AUTHOR-
MUNSHI PREM CHAND

Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen
name Munshi Premchand was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindi-Urdu literature.
He is one of the most celebrated writers of the Indian subcontinent,[3] and is regarded as one
of the foremost Hindi writers of the early twentieth century.He began writing under the pen
name "Nawab Rai", but subsequently switched to "Premchand". Munshi being an honorary
prefix. A novel writer, story writer and dramatist, he has been referred to as the "Upanyas
Samrat" ("Emperor among Novelists") by writers. His works include more than a dozen nov-
els, around 250 short stories, several essays and translations of a number of foreign literary
works into Hindi.

BOOK FAIR—-2018