APJ (abdul kalam shab s childhood)8_9 year's old......
APJ ;I was born into a middle-class tamil family in the island town of ram as warm in the erstwhile madras state.my fathe r jainulabdeen had neither much formal education nor much wealth:despite these disadvantages he possessed great innate wisdom and a true generosity of spirit. He had an ideal helmate in my mother. Ashiaamma.l do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day.but lam quite certain that far more outside ate with us than all the members of our own family together. we lived in our ancestral house century it was a faidly large pucca house made of limestone and brick on the mosque Street in ramasvarm. The second world war broke out in 1939 when I was eight years old for reasons l have never been able to understand. a sudden demand for tamarind seeds and sell them to a provision shop on mosque Street a day s collection would fetch me the princely sum of one Anna. My brother -in -law jallaluddin would tell me stories about the war which l would later att...