As a boy, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam had a teacher named Sivasubramania Iyer, an orthodox Brahmin. “One day, he invited me to his home for a meal,” Kalam wrote. Iyer served the Muslim boy himself. He told him: “Kalam, I want you to develop so that you are on par with the highly educated people of the big cities.”
He also told him: “Once you decide to change the system, such problems have to be confronted.”