A SALAAM TO KALAM : The Short Film Tribute to President Abdul Kalam

Writer & Director © Senthil Kumar The Times Of India presents a short film on the childhood of President A P J Abdul Kalam to inspire students and announce the Times Spark scholarships. A Times initiative to ignite the reading habit and discover the Kalams of tomorrow. #JaiHind 🇮🇳 @PresidentOfIndia Short Summary:  It’s a stormy day on a bridge over the Indian ocean to the island of Rameswaram. A night train delivers the morning newspaper to a newspaper boy who rides out into the storm to deliver the news and is the first to read the newspaper everyday as he reads all along his morning route, under the big banyan tree and sitting on the boat while his father rowed people from the island to the mainland. One day he sees the picture of a spitfire aircraft in a newspaper article about the Supermarine Spitfire, a fighter jet used by the British in World War II. He cuts it out, makes a paper rocket out of it and makes it fly and puts it up on his wall. This newspaper image became his lif