Wings of Fire by Summary 

An Autobiography of APJ Abdul Kalam

Summary and Themes of Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire

Wings of fire An Autobiography AVUL PAKIR JAINULABDEEN ABDUL KALAM
has come to personally represent to many of his countrymen the best
aspects of Indian life. Born in 1931, the son of a little educated boatowner
in Rameswaram, Tamil-Nadu, he had an un-para career as a Defence
scientist, culminating in the highest civilian award of India, the Bharat Ratna.

Wings of fire summary:-

I was born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. My father, Jainulabdeen, had neither much formal education nor much wealth; despite these disadvantages, he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma. I do not recal the exact number of people she fed every day, but I am quite certain that far more outsiders ate with us than al the members of our own family put together. My parents were widely regarded as an ideal couple. My mother’s lineage was the more distinguished, one of her forebears having been bestowed the title of ‘Bahadur’ by the British. I was one of many children— a short boy with rather undistinguished looks, born to tal and handsome parents. We lived in our ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the 19th century. It was a fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram. My austere father used to avoid al inessential comforts and luxuries.