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UNIT - 8

Prose

Before you read
Not to be republished
The passage given below, which is incomplete, is an extract
from Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s autobiography. Listen to your
teacher and complete the passage.
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I was born into a middle-class _________ family in the island town
of Rameswaram in the erstwhile _________
state. My _________ Jainulabdeen, had neither
much formal education nor much ________;
despite these disadvantages, he possessed
great innate wisdom and a true generosity
of spirit. He had an ideal helpmate in my
_______, Ashiamma. I do not recall the exact
number of people she ______ every day, but I
am quite certain that far more _____________
are with us than all the __________of our own
family put together.
To My Countrymen

- Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Read on

The following is an extract from Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s book
‘Ignited Minds’. Let us read the extract and understand his
message to the youth of India.

All through this book I have spoken about the power of
imagination. It lies at the heart of the creative process and is
the very substance of life, allied as it is to the power to attract
to us what we most desire. This power makes all the differ-
ence between the winners and the losers. I would like to see in
twenty years a literate and poverty-free India. I dream of an India
governed by noble leaders. I dream of a system where the work
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