Villagers entrusted their monthly savings to post office accounts through them and illiterate residents welcomed them into their homes to read personal letters and draft replies.
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Khetaram believed that inauspicious news should never enter a household and must be destroyed; therefore, he stood outside, read the letter twice aloud and tore it to pieces.
Khetaram had to take up a job because farming bajra during recurrent famines could not yield enough grain to feed his family of five, leaving them facing starvation without regular income.
Khetaram termed famine as ‘a way of life’ because severe droughts and crop failures occur persistently in the arid desert, making water scarcity and food shortages a constant reality.
signals 2. Dunes 3. Hamlets 4. Defying 5. Slumped 6. devoid Each word accurately completes the desert passage: ‘signals’ describes bodily physical warnings, ‘dunes’ names sand mounds, ‘hamlets’ identifies remote settlements, ‘defying’ captures braving extreme heat, ‘slumped’ depicts resting camels and ...