Question

How did the new teacher spread communal hatred among the school children​

Answer 1

Abdul Kalam was in the fifth standard at the Rameswaram Elementary School when a new teacher came to their class. Kalam used to wear a cap which marked him as a Muslim. He always sat in the front row next to his Brahmin friend, Ramanadha Sastry. This new teacher could not tolerate a Muslim boy sitting with the son of a Hindu priest. So, he asked Kalam to go and sit on the back bench which, according to this new teacher, was in accordance with the social ranking. This incident made both the boys very sad and brought tears to Ramanadha’s eyes. They reported this incident to their respective parents. Lakshmana Sastry, Ramanathan’s father, sent for the teacher and reprimanded him for spreading the poison of social inequality and communal intolerance in the minds of innocent children. He asked him to either apologise or quit school. The teacher not only regretted his unbecoming behaviour but also reformed himself.

Answer 2

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Kalam’s parents were noble and generous people. Though his father was an austere man, he provided his family with all necessities, in terms of food, medicine or clothes. He admired his father’s honesty and self-discipline and his mother’s faith in goodness and kindness. He admired his parents for respecting all religions.