Mangaluru: Dr. Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and MD, BrahMos Aerospace, distinguished scientist and Director, BrahMos, DRDO visited Sahyadri. At first, he expressed his curiosity to visit and view the innovative labs, the in-house start-ups and the student-centric initiatives of Sahyadri as he was already given a heads up by one of the esteemed guests of Sahyadri Conclave held early this year.
Post this, he had an intellectual session with the students and staff on his interactions with Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. At the beginning of his talk, he made a remark that he was astonished to visit one of the innovation centres in Mumbai. However, Sahyadri has surpassed his idea of an innovation centre, he lauded. He added that Sahyadri teaches “what an actual Innovation Centre is.”
While addressing the audience, he said that innovation was the key to generate revenue and resources for the nation. He then shared anecdotes of his interactions with the great Missile Man Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. He recalled how blessed he was to work in the team of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam and mentioned that he would have been an inferior human being hadn’t he met him. He recalled the ideologies of the legend and highlighted that only education does not make one Dr. Kalam. “You should be a thinking person and Sahyadri is creating such an ambience for the youngsters to be innovators”, he said. He reiterated to the students that proven path cannot take one anywhere hence newer path for excellence is needed. Finally, he concluded stating that today’s generation was inspirational but should be shaped and fine tuned to bring out effective contributions from it for the nation.
