The Second World War broke out in 1939(A), when I was eight years old. For
reasons I have never been able to understand, a sudden demand for tamarind seeds (B)
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 (C), was completely
unaffected by the War. But soon India was forced to join the Allied 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(D), who distributed newspapers in Rameswaram, 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.
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 self-discipline (E) from my father; from my mother, I inherited
faith in goodness and deep kindness and so did my three brothers and sister.
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