Download Vitamin-M – NCERT Class 9 English Chapter 4 PDF from the new NCERT Class 9 English book Kaveri (2026-27). Read the chapter online or download the free PDF. Vitamin-M (Asha Nehemiah): Ravi secretly follows Grandpa round town and is fooled at every step. At home Grandpa shows that it is Ravi’s mother who forgot his birthday — she is the one who needs Vitamin-M.
Vitamin-M PDF – Chapter 4 of Kaveri
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What Is in Vitamin-M? (Class 9 English Chapter 4)
- Vitamin-M (Asha Nehemiah): Ravi secretly follows Grandpa round town and is fooled at every step. At home Grandpa shows that it is Ravi’s mother who forgot his birthday — she is the one who needs Vitamin-M.
- I Cannot Remember My Mother (Rabindranath Tagore): the poet cannot picture his mother, yet feels her in a humming tune, the scent of shiuli flowers and the stillness of the sky.
- Extra reading: Mulk Raj Anand’s The Lost Child — a boy lost at a fair wants nothing but his parents; Thomas Hood’s I Remember, I Remember — an adult looks back on his childhood home.
- Common theme: memory and family — who really forgets, and how we keep the people we love.
- Language work: movement and sound words, prepositions, interrogative sentences and reported speech, sensory words, refrain, symbolism, alliteration and imagery; an article and a diary entry.
Quick revision – Vitamin-M
| Text | Type | Key idea |
|---|---|---|
| Vitamin-M (Asha Nehemiah) | Story | Grandpa, thought to be forgetful, outwits Ravi all day and ends by saying his daughter needs Vitamin-M. |
| The Lost Child (Mulk Raj Anand; extra reading) | Story | A boy lost at a fair refuses every treat he once wanted; he only wants his parents. |
| I Cannot Remember My Mother (Rabindranath Tagore) | Poem | The poet cannot picture his mother but feels her in a tune, a scent and the sky. |
| I Remember, I Remember (Thomas Hood; extra reading) | Poem | A grown man recalls the happy home and garden of his childhood and feels its loss. |
Old NCERT vs New – Class 9 English
This chapter is from Kaveri, the new NCERT Class 9 English book (NCF-SE 2023, used from 2026-27). It replaced the old book “Beehive and Moments”, so chapter numbers and names differ from older PDFs.
Solutions and All Chapters
Answers to the exercises and the full chapter list of Kaveri:
Vitamin-M – Overview
| Class | Class 9 |
| Subject | English |
| Book | Kaveri – new NCERT book |
| Chapter | 4 of 7 – Vitamin-M |
| Book pages | 97 – 136 |
| Edition | Latest NCERT edition (2026-27) |
| Session | 2026-27 |
| Free – read online or download |
Class 9 English Chapter 4 – FAQs
Where can I download Vitamin-M Class 9 PDF?
From the download table on this page – the chapter PDF is free, and the full book is linked too.
What is Class 9 English Chapter 4 about?
Vitamin-M (Asha Nehemiah): Ravi secretly follows Grandpa round town and is fooled at every step. At home Grandpa shows that it is Ravi’s mother who forgot his birthday — she is the one who needs Vitamin-M.
Is Vitamin-M from the new NCERT Class 9 English book?
Yes. It is chapter 4 of kaveri, the new NCERT Class 9 English book for 2026-27.
Is this the latest NCERT edition for 2026-27?
Yes – the PDF is NCERT’s latest edition for the 2026-27 session.
Where are the NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Chapter 4?
Open the NCERT Solutions link above for answers to the exercise questions.