Harish Palaniappan's

Wow.. chennaiist ran an interesting post on a tamil columnist Jasmine Ramesh..

While the post is a small interview they had with the writer, the portion that interested me was about a question the writer once raised with kalam and what kalam had replied for that.

I quote this from chennaiist:

Question: I'd asked him why professionally successful people like him don't care too much about their appearances.

Answer Sir APJ Adbul Kalam - the former (and the most favorite) president of india, gave:
"Once, soon after the successful launch of an Indian satellite, I'd gone to meet the then Prime Minister, Mrs.Indira Gandhi. Owing to the late working hours and tension, I'd gone in a crumpled and dirty attire. The watchman refused to let me in saying I was not dressed fit enough to meet the PM. The PM came personally and told the watchman-'He wears the clothes of victory! What can be better than that?' and welcomed me in. From that day, I decided that a man is what his nature and achievement is!"

"Clothes of Victory"
That's something I hear for the first time.. and think will relish knowing this for a long time to come.

As far as I read or as I can remember, this thing doesn't appear in kalam's biography "Wings of Fire" too (if i am right).