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 attempt to trace in the headlines in dinmany our area being isolated was completely unaffected by the war. I had  3 friends in my childhood Ramanand Shastri from orthodox Hindu Brahman families is children non of as ever felt any difference and upbringing in fact Ramananda Shastri was the sun of pakshi Laxman Shastri hike priest of Rameshwaram temple later took over the priesthood of of the Rameshwaram temple from his is father Arvind went into enter the business of arranging transferred for visiting pilgrims and sivaprakasam the camp a catering constructor for The the the south I railway's during De De annual Siri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony aur family AST Tu to arrange Bots with a special platform for caring riddles of Lord Som the temple on on the marriage site. One day Wayne I I was in in the V standard 8 the Rameshwaram elementary School new teacher came Tu 2 hours class I Tu to wear a a cap beat market MI e Asha a Muslim and I I always shareit in in the the front route next to Ramanand Shastri who war the scared thread De new to teacher Kud note stomach a Hindu periyarist sun sitting with a Muslim boy however my science teacher Shiv Subramaniam frog n otterbox Brahman with very conservative wife was something of a Rebel hi he did his best Tu to break social Warriors so so they people from wearing background Khud mingle easily one day invited MI to is is home from a a mil his wife was horrified at the idea of of a Muslim boy a Bing invited Tu 2 line in in her ritual pure kitchen then they second world world war was power and India's freedom was eminent Indians will Bolt there on India rail bold there o w n India declared Gandhiji the wall country e Baj felt Jeet and unprecedented optimism I my father for permission to leave Rameshwaram and study at the district headquarters in in Ramanathapuram hi told MI Asam if thinking allowed Abul I know no you you have Tu to go away A2 to grow those the the signal not fly across the the sun alone and without a a nest hi quieted Khalil ghibran Tu to my I can't is it and mother uh mother uh you children are are you children day are are the the Suns and daughters so o life longing itself they com through to you you but from you main give them your love but not your four they own thoughts  APJ abdul kalam shab