NCERT Book Class 9 English (Moments) Chapter 3 Iswaran the Storyteller

3. Iswaran the Storyteller

One night Mahendra woke up from his sleep and
saw “a dark cloudy form”. He broke out into a cold
sweat. Was it a ghost?

THE story was narrated to Ganesh by a young man, Mahendra by
name. He was a junior supervisor in a firm which offered on hire
supervisors at various types of construction sites: factories, bridges,
dams, and so on. Mahendra’s job was to keep an eye on the activities
at the work site. He had to keep moving from place to place every
now and then as ordered by his head office: from a coal mining
area to a railway bridge construction site, from there after a few
months to a chemical plant which was coming up somewhere.