CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -Abdul used to collect those seeds and sell them in the market. 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.

Detailed explanation-2: -APJ Abdul Kalam distributed newspapers as a 10-year-old in his hometown of Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu. The scientist, who passed away on July 27, 2015, supplemented his family’s income by walking three kilometres to collect newspapers from Rameswaram Road Railway station and then running around town to distribute them.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: When stoppage of trains was cancelled at Rameshwaram because of World War II, Kalam’s cousin, Samsuddin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, asked him for help in collecting newspaper bundles which were thrown from the moving train. This helped Abdul Kalam earn his first wages.

Detailed explanation-4: -What did he do? Answer: Samsuddin was Abdul Kalam’s cousin. He used to distribute newspapers in Rameswaram.

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.