Question

“On the whole, the small society of Rameswaram was very rigid in terms of the segregation of different social groups,” says the author.
The author speaks both of people who were very aware of the differences among them and those who tried to bridge these differences. Can you identify such people in the text?

Answer 1

The people who were very aware of the differences among them, were the young teacher who joined the Rameshwaram elementary school and came to teach Kalam’s class, the fifth standard, and his science teacher’s conservative wife who refused to serve Kalam in her ritually pull kitchen. Those who tried to bridge these differences were Kalam’s science teacher Sivasubramania Iyer who invited, served and dined with him to break social barriers so that people could mingle easily, and Lakshmana Sastry who conveyed the strong sense of conviction to the new young teacher to reform him.