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Complete the following sentences. (a) An example of the generosity and kindness of Kalam’s parents is ...... (b) Kalam feels he had a very secure childhood because ...... (c) The suspension of train halt at Rameshwaram station proved to be a blessing in disguise for Kalam because ...... (d) Kalam continues to feel proud about the money he had earned in childhood by picking up bundles of newspaper because ...... (e) Some traits and values Kalam and his siblings inherited from their parents were ...... (f ) The salient feature of Kalam’s relationship with his three childhood friends was that ...... (g) Two unique examples of communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind are ...... (h) The nation should be wary of people like the grade V teacher of the narrator because ...... (i) However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because ...... (j) Kalam’s second visit to his science teacher’s house surprised him because ......

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(a) that they used to feed more outsiders than all the members of the family put together. 

(b) all his material and emotional needs were fulfilled. 

(c) he was able to earn his first wages. 

(d) it was his own money earned for the first time. 

(e) honesty, self-discipline, faith in goodness and deep kindness. 

(f ) none of them felt any difference amongst themselves because of religious differences. 

(g) Lakshmana Sastry and Sivasubramania Iyer. 

(h) their narrow mindedness generate religious hatred. 

(i) they believe in communal harmony and brotherhood of mankind. 

(j) Sivasubramania Iyer’s wife took him inside her kitchen and served him food with her own hands.



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