NCERT Class 9 English My Childhood

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My Childhood

BEFORE YOU READ

• Can you think of any scientists, who have also been statesmen?

• A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose projects in space, defence and nuclear technology guided India into the twenty-first century, became our eleventh President in 2002.

• In his autobiography, Wings of Fire, he speaks of his childhood.

1. I WAS born into a middle-class Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras State. My father, 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 helpmate in my mother, Ashiamma. I do not recall the exact number of people she fed every day, but I am quite certain that far more outsiders ate with us than all the members of our own family put together.

2. I was one of many children — a short boy with rather undistinguished looks, born to tall and handsome parents. We lived in our ancestral house, which was built in the middle of the nineteenth century. It was a fairly large pucca house, made of limestone and brick, on the Mosque Street in Rameswaram. My austere father used to avoid all inessential comforts and luxuries. However, all necessities were provided for, in terms of food, medicine or clothes. In fact, I would say mine was a very secure childhood, both materially and emotionally.

3. The Second World War broke out in 1939, when I was eight years old. For reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds erupted in the market. I used to collect the 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 I would later attempt to trace in the headlines in Dinamani. Our area, being isolated, was completely unaffected by the War. But soon India was forced to join theAllied Forces and something like a state of emergency was declared. The first casualty came in the form of the suspension of the train halt at Rameswaram station. The newspapers now had to be bundled and thrown out from the moving train on the Rameswaram Road between Rameswaram and Dhanuskodi. That forced my cousin Samsuddin, who distributed newspapers in Rameswarm, to look for a helping hand to catch the bundles and, as if naturally, I filled the slot. Samsuddin helped me earn my first wages. Half a century later, I can still feel the surge of pride in earning my own money for the first time.

4. Every child is born, with some inherited characteristics, into a specific socio-economic and emotional environment, and trained in certain ways by figures of authority. I inherited honesty and selfdiscipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness and so did my three brothers and sister. I had three close friends in my childhood — Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindan and Sivaprakasan. All these boys were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families. As children, none of us ever felt any difference amongst ourselves because of our religious differences and upbringing. In fact, Ramanadha Sastry was the son of Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, the high priest of the Rameswaram temple. Later, he took over the priesthood of the Rameswaram temple from his father; Aravindan went into the business of arranging transport for visiting pilgrims; and Sivaprakasan became a catering contractor for the Southern Railways.

5. During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanamceremony, our family used to arrange boats with a special platform for carrying idols of the Lord from the temple to the marriage site, situated in the middle of the pond called Rama Tirtha which was near our house. Events from the Ramayana and from the life of the Prophet were the bedtime stories my mother and grandmother would tell the children in our family.

6. One day when I was in the fifth standard at the Rameswaram Elementary School, a new teachercame to our class. I used to wear a cap which marked me as a Muslim, and I always sat in the front row next to Ramanadha Sastry, who wore the sacred thread. The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest’s son sitting with a Muslim boy. In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the back bench. I felt very sad, and so did Ramanadha Sastry. He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row. The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left a lasting impression on me.

7. After school, we went home and told our respective parents about the incident. Lakshmana Sastry summoned the teacher, and in our presence, told the teacher that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He bluntly asked the teacher to either apologise or quit the school and the island. Not only did the teacher regret his behaviour, but the strong sense of conviction Lakshmana Sastry conveyed ultimately reformed this young teacher.

Thinking about the Text

I. Answer these questions in one or two sentences each.

1. Where was Abdul Kalam’s house?

2. What do you think Dinamani is the name of? Give a reason for your answer.

3. Who were Abdul Kalam’s school friends? What did they later become?

4. How did Abdul Kalam earn his first wages?

5. Had he earned any money before that? In what way?

II. Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words)

1. How does the author describe: (i) his father, (ii) his mother, (iii) himself?

2. What characteristics does he say he inherited from his parents?

III. Discuss these questions in class with your teacher and then write down your answers in two or three paragraphs each.

1. “On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social groups,” says the author.

(i) Which social groups does he mention? Were these groups easily identifiable (for example, by the way they dressed)?

(ii) Were they aware only of their differences or did they also naturally share

friendships and experiences? (Think of the bedtime stories in Kalam’s house; of who his friends were; and of what used to take place in the pond near his house.)

(iii) The author speaks both of people who were very aware of the differences among them and those who tried to bridge these differences. Can you identify such people in the text?

(iv) Narrate two incidents that show how differences can be created, and also how they can be resolved. How can people change their attitudes?

2. (i) Why did Abdul Kalam want to leave Rameswaram?

(ii) What did his father say to this?

(iii) What do you think his words mean? Why do you think he spoke those words?


Please refer to attached file for NCERT Class 9 English My Childhood

Beehive Chapter 01 The Fun They Had
NCERT Class 9 English The Fun They Had
Beehive Chapter 02 The Sound of Music
NCERT Class 9 English The Sound of Music
Beehive Chapter 03 The Little Girl
NCERT Class 9 English The Little Girl
Beehive Chapter 04 A Truly Beautiful Mind
NCERT Class 9 English A Truly Beautiful Mind
Beehive Chapter 05 The Snake and the Mirror
NCERT Class 9 English The Snake and the Mirror
Beehive Chapter 06 My Childhood
NCERT Class 9 English My Childhood
Beehive Chapter 07 Packing
NCERT Class 9 English Packing
Beehive Chapter 08 Reach for the Top
NCERT Class 9 English Reach for the Top
Beehive Chapter 09 The Bond of Love
NCERT Class 9 English The Bond of Love
Beehive Chapter 10 Kathmandu
NCERT Class 9 English Kathmandu
Beehive Chapter 11 If I Were You
NCERT Class 9 English If I Were You
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 01 The Lost Child
NCERT Class 9 English The Lost Child
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 02 The Adventures of Toto
NCERT Class 9 English The Adventures of Toto
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 03 Iswaran the Storyteller
NCERT Class 9 English Iswaran the Storyteller
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 04 In the Kingdom of Fools
NCERT Class 9 English In the Kingdom of Fools
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 05 The Happy Prince
NCERT Class 9 English The Happy Prince
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 06 Weathering the Storm in Ersama
NCERT Class 9 English Weathering the Storm in Ersama
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 07 The Last Leaf
NCERT Class 9 English The Last Leaf
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 08 A House Is Not a Home
NCERT Class 9 English A House Is Not a Home
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 09 The Accidental Tourist
NCERT Class 9 English The Accidental Tourist
Moments Supplimentary Reader Chapter 10 The Beggar
NCERT Class 9 English The Beggar

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