NCERT Solutions for Class 9th English Chapter 7 Carrier of Words

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Carrier of Words (prose, printed pages 203–219) is a factual feature, not a story: it follows one named man, Khetaram , “the sole postman of Somarad Branch Post Office”, whose “left shoulder slumped from years of carrying a mailbag”. The writing works by piling up measured facts — 120 km beyond the last railhead at Barmer, 50 km beyond the last phone, 10 km beyond where the road “crumbles into sand”, a 28-kilo regulation load, 20 km for a single delivery, 330 km from Jodhpur in under 24 hours. The chapter’s sharpest fact is a small one: on days when the heat crosses 50°C it “is recorded as 49.9 degrees celsius, since 50 degrees celsius would mean a state holiday.” One decimal point decides whether a man walks into a furnace. That single sentence carries the whole argument about who bears t

• Carrier of Words (prose)
• Words (poem by Charles Swain)