A sleepless night helped me to unearth a piece On' Abdul Kalam', the People's President for ever

Yesterday I  could not sleep at all till 430 AM. Being a hypertension BP person it was not advisable to remain awake at 65 plus triggered by academic greed and hyper enthusiasm to read and write and allow the eager imagination to wander on Keynes and Writer Jayakanthan and think about the pending work on currency crisis. But I could not help it. It was a one off event which I should not repeat for I know  sleep is as important as food  and healthy sex with the partner and that  it is a gentle breeze sent from heaven as somebody said

 The beneficial fallout was that I could rediscover my academic stamina of the yeasteryears to work  as I did in my twenties and during the days of finishing my doctoral dissertation which almost took a decade after spending four fruitful years at Gokhale  Institute during the late  seventies and early eighties- the most productive period in my  life although I retuned without submitting the thesis .By sheer accident i could stumble upon  some old diaries and also the write up on Our Abdul Kalam by One Pondicherry Parameswaran NaIr WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE Personal Secretary to the President on invitation in one supplement (EN Vikatan) to Ananda Vikatan (20 -7-2011) one of the quality Tamil weeklies which  still maintain the standard. With due courtesy and acowledgement to both the author and the publisher of the Magazine let me translate a few episodes in Kalam’s life which is worth telling and translating.