L - 6 MY CHILDHOOD

                 MY CHILDHOOD

                - A.P.J Abdul Islam

NCERT QUESTIONS

Q -1 Where was Abdul Kalam's house ?

Ans -  Abdul Kalam's house was on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram.

Q-2  What do you think  Dinamani is the name of ? Give a reason for your answer .

Ans-  Dinamani is  the name of a daily newspaper in the Tamil language. Abdul Kalam's brother - in - law Jallaluddin used to tell him stories about the world war which he used to search in the headlines in Dinamani.

Q-3 Who were Abdul  Kalam's school friends ? What did they become later ?

Ans- Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindam and Sivaprakashan were Abdul Kalam's school friends.

Later, Ramanadha became the priest of the Rameswaram Temple, Aravindam , went into the business of arranging transport for visiting pilgrims and Sivaprakasan became a catering contractor for the Southern Railways.

Q -4 How did  Abdul earn his first wages ?

Ans -  During the  second world war the casualty cam

e in the form of the suspension of the train halt at Rameswaram station. The newspaper now had to be bundled and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram Road between Tameswaram and Dhanuskodi.Samsuddin, one of his cousin needed a helping hand to distribute the handles. Abdul Kalam helped his cousin to catch the bundles  and earned his first wages.

Q- 5  Had he  earned any money before that ? In what way,?

Ans -  Yes, he had earned money before that. 

When he was about eight years old, there was a sudden demand for tamarind seed. He used to collect the seeds and sell them to a provision shop on Mosque Street.

This was his initial attempt at earning money that fetched him about one Anna.