Journalists real tribute to Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Take his club foot, for instance, a condition of misaligned legs that he was born with in November 1971. Despite a surgery in his infancy in the middle of the Indo-Pak war, Khanna, the son of a video cassette library owner, had to wear wooden shoes till his teens. ...his mother and he would go from school to school selling chhole-bhature...Admission to the course hinged upon his performance in a group discussion and a personal interview. He flunked both...His language skills, or the lack of it, meant that in college, Khanna had to seek refuge in the familiarity of Indian cuisine. The first company to visit the campus was ITC. And he was rejected in one of the preliminary rounds of their multi-tier selection procedure. “They asked me to name a variety of cheeses. I told them I could write them, but couldn’t pronounce. Obviously, I wasn’t selected.He recalls one Christmas Eve when, with just about $3 in his pocket, he had to choose between paying for food and travel. Only fleetingly, though, till he joined a flock of men queuing up in front of what later turned out to be New York Rescue Mission, a shelter for the homeless. American press was knocking on his doors having discovered one of the most camera-friendly Indian chefs in the world. Within 10 months of its launch, in October 2011, Junoon earned a Michelin star, the first of the five consecutive ones that it has earned to date. Khanna attributes this achievement not to his “delicate tandoor dishes” or the “silky three-lentil shorba” that received generous praise from Sifton, but to the generation of Indian parents obsessed with giving their children a good education. “I was not working alone to get this Michelin star; with me were my parents, an entire generation of parents who sacrificed their pleasures to groom kids to bring international awards to the country. This is the essence of my India,” he says. http://forbesindia.com/magazine/forbeslifeindia/ Lessons from forbesIndia for identifying these positive stories and highly inspirational ones...Wonder why the rest of our magazines misses out such stories...in fact every issue of every journal/newspapers should carry out such inspirational stories, the way it was told in forbesindia. Guess this is what is needed to be learnt from ENGLISH. The art of SAYING POSITIVE INSPIRING NEWS. http://www.rediff.com/news/1998/oct/13kalam.htm front page of the newspaper had this picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert land into an orchard and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. Journalists real tribute to Dr Abdul Kalam is to write ONLY POSITIVE INSPIRING NEWS AS HE WANTED. And never fall into the proof of his question to Pritish Nandy.. In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. Why are we so negative? Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why? We are the second largest producer of wheat in the world. We are the second largest producer of rice. We are the first in milk production. We are number one in remote sensing satellites. Look at Dr Sudarshan. He has transformed the tribal village into a self sustaining, self driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed with bad news and failures and disasters.