Answer: At the very beginning of the autobiographical essay “Strong Roots”, the writer A.P.J Abdul Kalam has given a detailed description of his birthplace, parentage and dwelling house. We are told that he was born into a middle-class Muslim Tamil family in the island town of Rameswaram in erstwhile Madras. His father was Jainulabdeen who was an austere man and had neither much wealth nor much formal education. But he had great innate wisdom and spiritual generosity. His mother’s name was Ashiamma in whom his father got an ideal wife. From this essay, we come to know that the essayist’s birthplace was mainly inhabited by Muslim and also many Hindu families. His house which was built in the middle of 19th century, was about ten minutes’ walk from Shiva temple in Rameswaram.
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