Anubha: Let me take no more time. Let me begin this interaction straight away. First, question, who's going to ask? Go ahead.

Nidisha Satija: Sir, you are a poet, an eminent scientist, an icon of knowledge, a supreme commander of force, President of India, so many roles Sir, which one do you like the most?

President Kalam: It is a beautiful question. You know, one thing in life - you'd be happy, if whatever profession, whatever mission you do, you start liking it. Once you start liking it, you will enjoy doing it. The best performance comes out when whatever job or task you do, you start liking it. You can be a poet or anything else. The challenge, you know, what it needs is the challenge to handle any problem. That comes out of you, once you start liking a job.

Anubha: I think many of you are aware that the President after completing his aeronautical engineering had two professions in front of him, one was that of technical production and the other Indian Air Force. Sir, tell us a little bit about that.

President Kalam: Well, Indian Air Force, you know I was involved. Not straight away Indian Air Force, of course. I wanted to become a pilot, I had a dream to become a pilot and in 1958, I went for the pilot selection and I was not selected, because they wanted nine candidates and I was the 10th fellow. If one fellow had had some problem, I would have got it, but everybody fortunately got through. So, I was not selected. When you are a young fellow, you are disappointed. But disappointment should not defeat you. I had a teacher, all of you note down. My teacher told me - his name is Prof Satish Dabur - he told me, if you do not do anything, there is no problem. Right, you all agree? But if you do a mission, if you do a big thing, there will be big problems. But at no time you should allow the problem to be your captain or a master. You should become the master of the problem and defeat the problem and succeed.

Anubha: So, failure is not the end of the world, you should continue to strive ahead.

President Kalam: Then what happened, instead of flying in the aircraft, I started making it. Aircraft and rockets and missiles.

Anubha: I think we have another question on the similar lines here.