The Second World War led to the suspension of the train-halt at Rameswaram station. As a result of this the newspapers had to be tied up in bundles and thrown out from the moving train. This forced Kalam’s cousin Shamsuddin, a newspaper distributor in Rameswaram, to look for a helping hand to catch the bundles of newspaper. Abdul Kalam decided to act as helping hand and earned his first wages in the process.

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