Shreshth Dugar: The Indian society at large gives a lot of emphasis on success. But in the United States of America, for every successful tech company like Google, Amazon, e-bay, Yahoo!, you've got many companies which never took off really. So actually you have to fail to hit success big time. But do you think India is really ready to celebrate the effort rather than the success?

President Kalam: Well, you know, as a national character, how do you take the failure? For example, you take my case. In 1979, we launched a satellite launch vehicle to put a satellite in orbit. And instead of putting the satellite in orbit, the whole satellite went into the Bay of Bengal.

In 1979, it was a failure, but what happened, at that time, my chairman decided to find out the cause behind it. We were very busy in finding out why the failure took place, we worked hard for three months and found out that there is a reason for the failure. We knew what was needed to be corrected and the nation was prepared for the failure. Then next year, by July 1980, we launched the SLV-3 satellite launch vehicle. The Rohini satellites went into the orbit, it was a success. So, our nation also can celebrate success. And at the same time, it can withstand failure. But you are right, as a young fellow, you asked a very good question.

Anubha: The next question is from a student of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Delhi, Lavi Tripathi. She wants to ask you about your personal upsets and how did you deal with them. Go ahead Lavi.

Lavi Tripathi: You had to deal with a lot of upsets, like your dream project Agni, which didn't testfire twice. How do you keep your cool in such situations?

President Kalam: It was in the launchpad and for sometime, it had some technical problem. Finally in 1989, within a month, we worked very hard, it took off and reached the target of 2,000 km. So, that's the happiness that you get, but what happens is most of the times, you have to concentrate, failure should not defeat you. You should know the way. So, all my team, wherever I worked, in ISRO or DRDO, the team effort was to find out the reason, what went wrong? You completely concentrate on the problem what has happened and find out a solution. That's how coolness comes.

Anubha: Right President Kalam, in fact, I think patience holds a big key when you talk of scientific research and I do believe that some of the team members that you have led say that you are an innovator. You look at simple solutions. Is that true?

President Kalam: Well, it is not me alone, I had a very young team. The young team was very innovative and my team members were brighter than me.

Anubha: President Kalam, we have a lot of questions from people and children who are actually from across the country. I think we can play out some of those questions. We have a question from Hyderabad, question fro Bhopal, question from Jammu.