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MY CHILDHOOD -BY A.P.J.ABDUL KALAM

English · Class 9

My Childhood’ is an excerpt from the autobiographical account of the former President of India A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, fondly called as ‘The Missile Man of India’. This nostalgic piece of writing has been taken from his autobiography ‘The Wings of Fire’, in which he shares the journey of his life.. As the experiences of childhood play an important role in shaping up the personality of a person,the author explains the role of those incidents, in raising an ordinary boy like him , with an undistinguished personality to the highest rank of the country.