Question

Ali had lost the zeal to do anything else except to come to the post office and wait for his name to be announced. comment

Answer 1

Ali had lost the zeal after his daughter married and shifted to Punjab. He realized how sad life was and he gave up hunting. His only aim in life now was coming to the post-office like a pilgrimage and collecting his letter.

Answer 2

Once Ali had been a clever and skillful Shikari but as his only daughter Miriam married a soldier of the Punjab regiment and left him , he understood the loneliness and feeling of being bereft of the animals whom he had killed . Now he just wanted to hear from his daughter and went to the post office every day at4