summary of wings of fire by apj abdul kalam

Lakshmana Sastry, told the teacher that he should not spread the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children. 'As you see, the three wise men - a Muslim, a Hindu and a Christian - explained to the schoolmaster. 'They would not allow their children to be segregated,' the three wise men said to the penitent teacher, reports The Telegraph.

When his father heard about it, he, along with his learned Brahmin friend and a Christian priest, summoned the teacher. Kalam.Īfter school, they went home and told their respective parents about the incident. The image of him weeping when I shifted to the last row left a lasting impression on me,' wrote Dr. 'He looked utterly downcast as I shifted to my seat in the last row. Young Kalam felt very sad, and so did young Ramanadha Sastry. In accordance with our social ranking as the new teacher saw it, I was asked to go and sit on the back bench,' Dr Kalam wrote.

'The new teacher could not stomach a Hindu priest's son sitting with a Muslim boy. Kalam used to wear a cap which marked him as a Muslim, and he always sat in the front row next to Ramanadha Sastry, who wore a sacred thread. APJ Abdul Kalam is known as people's president and 'missile man of India'. Kalam, one day, when he was in the fifth standard at the Rameswaram Elementary School, a new teacher came to the class.ĭr. Kalam wrote.Įvents from the Ramayana and from the life of the Prophet Muhammed were the bedtime stories young Kalam's mother and grandmother would tell the children in family.Īccording to Dr. 'During the annual Shri Sita Rama Kalyanam ceremony, 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,' Dr. Ramanadha Sastry was the son of Pakshi Lakshmana Sastry, the high priest of the Rameswaram temple and 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. As children, none of them ever felt any difference amongst themselves because of their religious differences and upbringing. All these boys were from orthodox Hindu Brahmin families.

Young Kalam had three close friends in his childhood-Ramanadha Sastry, Aravindan, and Sivaprakasan. How his father and friends handled a personal experience of Dr Kalam tell us a story how we should be dealing with difficult situations in a society. Kalam, the confluence of religions was a way of life. APJ Abdul Kalam in his autobiography 'Wings of fire'. '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,' wrote Dr.

Summary of wings of fire by apj abdul kalam