Class 9th Eng Beehive Ch-6 My Childhood, Message Characters explanation Summary Questions and answers Theme
Ch-6 My Childhood by APJ Abdul Kalam Kalam's Childhood Kalam was born in a middle-class Tamil family in Rameswaram to Jainulabdeen and Ashiamma, two very generous people. Kalam inherited the values of honesty, self-discipline, and goodness from his parents. Though Kalam's family was rather big, Kalam's father made sure that all basic necessities like food, medicine and clothes were available to the family. They lived in a large, puccha, ancestral house. His First Wages When the Second World War started, there was a sudden demand for tamarind seeds in the market. Kalam collected these seeds and sold them to earn an anna, an amount considered huge for that time. His brother-in-law, Jallaluddin, used to tell him stories about war which Kalam would try to find in the headlines of a local newspaper. The first impact of war on Rameswaram was that the train's halt at the station was suspended. As a result, the bundles of newspapers were now thrown from runn...