Complete the following sentences.
a. An example of the generosity and kindness of Kalam's parents is
____________________________________________________
b. Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because____________________
c. The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because_______________________________
d. Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because______________________________
e. Some traits and values Kalam and his siblings inherited from their parents were_____________________________
f. The salient feature of Kalam's relationship with his three childhood friends was that_____________________________
g. Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are________________________________
h. The nation should be wary of people like the grade V teacher of the narrator because___________________________
i. However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam's Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam's mother and grandmother because__________________
j. Kalam's second visit to his science teacher's house surprised him because ___________________________________________________________
Complete the following sentences.
a. An example of the generosity and kindness of Kalam's parents is
____________________________________________________
b. Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because____________________
c. The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because_______________________________
d. Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because______________________________
e. Some traits and values Kalam and his siblings inherited from their parents were_____________________________
f. The salient feature of Kalam's relationship with his three childhood friends was that_____________________________
g. Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are________________________________
h. The nation should be wary of people like the grade V teacher of the narrator because___________________________
i. However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam's Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam's mother and grandmother because__________________
j. Kalam's second visit to his science teacher's house surprised him because ___________________________________________________________
a. That despite their not too good financial conditions they used to feed far more outsiders with them than all the members of their own family put together.
b. His father used to cater to all the necessities in terms of food, medicine and clothes.
c. Samsuddin, Kalam’s cousin who distributed the newspapers needed a helping hand to collect the bundles, as now, due to the halt, the newspapers were bundled and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram Road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi. So, Kalam got a chance to help his cousin and earn his first wages for the first time.
d. It was the first time ever in his life that he had earned wages on his own.
e. Kalam and his siblings inherited honesty and self-discipline from their father; from their mother, they inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness.
f. Though his friends were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families, as children, none of them ever felt any difference amongst themselves because of their religious differences and upbringing.
g. (i) During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony, Kalam’s family, despite being followers of Islam, used to arrange boats with a special platform for carrying idols of the Lord from the temple to the marriage site. Not just this, his mother and grandmother used to tell stories from events from not just life of Prophet but also from the Ramayana (epic of Hindus).
(ii) In fifth grade Kalam and his dear friend Ramanadha Sastry were separated by a new teacher, on the basis of religious differences; both Kalam and his Sastry told their respective parents about the incident. Lakshmana Sastry, who was the highest priest in Rameswaram temple, summoned the teacher and told the teacher not to fill nubile minds of children with the dirt of communalism and made him apologise for his act.
h. Such people who spread the dirt of communalism in the society. And in this case when the person in question is an educator he should be severely punished so that he doesn’t pollute young minds with such petty issues and shackle their intellectual growth and jeopardise their progress.
i. They are faithful to mankind and propound secularity. They are truly religious as they teach children to be honest and self-disciplined and to have faith in goodness and deep kindness. They fight the bad elements of the society who are hindrance in co-existence.
j. This time the wife of his teacher herself served food to Kalam in the kitchen.
a. That despite their not too good financial conditions they used to feed far more outsiders with them than all the members of their own family put together.
b. His father used to cater to all the necessities in terms of food, medicine and clothes.
c. Samsuddin, Kalam’s cousin who distributed the newspapers needed a helping hand to collect the bundles, as now, due to the halt, the newspapers were bundled and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram Road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi. So, Kalam got a chance to help his cousin and earn his first wages for the first time.
d. It was the first time ever in his life that he had earned wages on his own.
e. Kalam and his siblings inherited honesty and self-discipline from their father; from their mother, they inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness.
f. Though his friends were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families, as children, none of them ever felt any difference amongst themselves because of their religious differences and upbringing.
g. (i) During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony, Kalam’s family, despite being followers of Islam, used to arrange boats with a special platform for carrying idols of the Lord from the temple to the marriage site. Not just this, his mother and grandmother used to tell stories from events from not just life of Prophet but also from the Ramayana (epic of Hindus).
(ii) In fifth grade Kalam and his dear friend Ramanadha Sastry were separated by a new teacher, on the basis of religious differences; both Kalam and his Sastry told their respective parents about the incident. Lakshmana Sastry, who was the highest priest in Rameswaram temple, summoned the teacher and told the teacher not to fill nubile minds of children with the dirt of communalism and made him apologise for his act.
h. Such people who spread the dirt of communalism in the society. And in this case when the person in question is an educator he should be severely punished so that he doesn’t pollute young minds with such petty issues and shackle their intellectual growth and jeopardise their progress.
i. They are faithful to mankind and propound secularity. They are truly religious as they teach children to be honest and self-disciplined and to have faith in goodness and deep kindness. They fight the bad elements of the society who are hindrance in co-existence.
j. This time the wife of his teacher herself served food to Kalam in the kitchen.
