Autobiography

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On the occation of Republic Day we have planed to get you all in touch with these great Autobiography and Books of the greatest personalities

1. Toward Freedom,(1936)
is an autobiographical book written by the first
Prime Minister of India , Jawaharlal Nehru while he
was in prison. It ran nine editions in the first year
alone. He wrote the book to explore how and why he
had ended up taking the path of civil disobedience
that in turn led to his imprisonment.

Nehru starts his history with how his ancestors had to
flee Kashmir , and then goes on to tell about his own
life, with a particular emphasis on the parts of his life
that had brought him to this point in time.

2. Wings of Fire (1999)
Is an autobiography of A P J Abdul Kalam ,
former President of India . It was written by Dr. Kalam
and Arun Tiwari. Kalam examines his early life,
effort, hardship, fortitude, luck and chance that
eventually led him to lead Indian space research,
nuclear and missile programs. Kalam started his
career, after graduating from Aerospace engineering at
MIT (Chennai), India , at Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited and was assigned to build a hovercraft
prototype. Later he moved to ISRO and helped
establish the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre and
pioneered the first space launch-vehicle program.
During the 1990s and early 2000, Kalam moved to the
DRDO to lead the Indian nuclear weapons program,
with particular successes in thermonuclear weapons
development culminating in the operation Smiling
Buddha and an ICBM Agni (missile) .

3. The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his
life from early childhood through to 1921. It was
written in weekly instalments and published in his
journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929. Its English
translation also appeared in installments in his other
journal Young India . It was initiated at the
insistence of Swami Anand and other close co-
workers of Gandhi, who encouraged him to explain the
background of his public campaigns. In 1999, the book
was designated as one of the "100 Best Spiritual
Books of the 20th Century" by a committee of global
spiritual and religious authorities.

4. Raja Yoga , Karma Yoga , Bhakti Yoga
Is the literary works of Swami Vivekananda
He was born into an aristocratic Bengali family of Calcutta,
Vivekananda was inclined towards spirituality. He was
influenced by his guru, Ramakrishna, from whom he
learnt that all living beings were an embodiment of
the divine self; therefore, service to God could be
rendered by service to mankind. After Ramakrishna's
death, Vivekananda toured the Indian subcontinent
extensively and acquired first-hand knowledge of the
conditions prevailing in British India . He later travelled
to the United States, representing India at the 1893
Parliament of the World Religions. Vivekananda
conducted hundreds of public and private lectures and
classes, disseminating tenets of Hindu philosophy in
the United States, England and Europe. In India,
Vivekananda is regarded as a patriotic saint and his
birthday is celebrated there as National Youth Day .

5.Life Of Therisa
Teresa of Calcutta, M.C. ] commonly known
as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September
1997), was a Roman Catholic religious sister and
missionary who lived most of her life in India. She
was born in today's Macedonia, with her family being
of Albanian descent originating in Kosovo.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity , a
Roman Catholic religious congregation , which in 2012
consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133
countries. They run hospices and homes for people
with HIV / AIDS , leprosy and tuberculosis; soup
kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children's
and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and
schools. Members must adhere to the vows of
chastity, poverty and obedience as well as a fourth
vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest
of the poor".

6.Life Of Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar , known
popularly as Akbar (IPA: [əkbər] , literally "the great";
14 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), also known as
Akbar the Great or Akbar I ,was Mughal Emperor
from 1556 until his death. He was the third and one of
the greatest rulers of the Mughal Dynasty in India.
Akbar succeeded his father, Humayun , under a regent,
Bairam Khan , who helped the young emperor expand
and consolidate Mughal domains in India. A strong
personality and a successful general, Akbar gradually
enlarged the Mughal Empire to include nearly all of
the Indian Subcontinent north of the Godavari river.
His power and influence, however, extended over the
entire country because of Mughal military, political,
cultural, and economic dominance. To unify the vast
Mughal state, Akbar established a centralised system
of administration throughout his empire and adopted a
policy of conciliating conquered rulers through
marriage and diplomacy. In order to preserve peace
and order in a religiously and culturally diverse
empire, he adopted policies that won him the support
of his non-Muslim subjects. Eschewing tribal bonds
and Islamic state identity, Akbar strived to unite far-
flung lands of his realm through loyalty, expressed
through a Persianised culture, to himself as an
emperor who had near-divine status.