CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -His cousin Shamsuddin distributed newspapers. The train would not stop at Rameshwaram and the bundles of newspapers were thrown from the running train. Abdul was employed by his cousin to collect them. This way he earned his first wages.

Detailed explanation-2: -4. During the Second World War, the newspapers were bundled and thrown out of a moving train. Abdul Kalam earned his first wages by helping his cousin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, to catch these bundles.

Detailed explanation-3: -What did he do? Answer: Samsuddin was Abdul Kalam’s cousin. He used to distribute newspapers in Rameswaram.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: I think Dinamani is the name of a newspaper because Kalam says that when his brother-in-law would tell his stories of the War, he would later try to trace it in the ‘headlines’ of Dinamani. This implies that Dinamani should have been a newspaper.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dinamani is the name of a local newspaper. It is so because Kalam traced the stories of the war in the head lives in Dinamani. 1. ‘On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social groups’, says the author.