Higher Secondary English Suggestion 2023
Prose
Strong Roots by A.P.J Abdul Kalam
Q:- Kalam's locality./
Discuss the communal harmony from the story.
Ans:- From the autobiographical sketch
"Strong Roots" by A.P.J Abdul Kalam, we get the picture of communal
harmoney. He was born into a middle-class Tamil Muslim family in the island of
Rameswaram in the erstwhile Madras state. He spent his childhood in his
ancestral house. It was located on the mosque street in Rameswaram. About his
locality, he said, "Our locality was predominantly Muslim, but there were
quite a lot of Hindu families too, living amicably with their Muslim
neighbours. "There reigned a perfect harmony.
There was a very old mosque there where his father fook him for the
evening prayer. The Shiva Temple of Rameswaram made the place famous. It was
about a ten-minute walk from his house. When he came out of the mosque after
the prayers, people of different religions would be sitting outsides and
waiting for him. There are bowls, full of water in their hands. Kalam's father
would dip his fingers in them and say a prayer. This water then carried home
for invalids. The people also came to thank him after being cured.
The high priest of Rameswaram Temple, Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry was very
colse friend of his father. They discussed their spiritual matters with each
other.
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