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The private realm.

The trend is to push even the most essential services into the private realm so that some company or others can make a profit on them

The deep irony is while pockets of private prosperity are growing, there is an inexorable impoverishment of the resources that belong to the public realm.

Alcohol which is a drying agent is often used in cosmetics as it evaporates rapidly and therefore gives a cooling effect.

1. The market has expanded for consumer goods. 

2. Vast amounts of money are spent to advertise these consumer goods.

3. Shopping has become more than a need. 

4. India had remained unaffected by all this. Now we find malls all over the country, even in the smaller towns.

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The writer brings to the readers to notice their own spending habits. He wants the readers to understand why they are shopping and what are they shopping for. Is there shopping meeting their basic requirements or are they indulging in unnecessary purchases? He holds advertisers and big corporations responsible for creating a tempting market where the consumers become unstoppable buying machines. An example of it would be buying flavored drinks with no nutritive value.

(a) The vision referred to here is Advanced West.

(b) When the vision is actualized India be referred to as a developed country.

(c) The writer is critical of our youth who are rushing to get their MBA degrees.

Yes, it gives awareness to the consumers to race the mother earth, restoring the sanity, all human beings have right to the basic material requirements for a life of dignity. It is necessary to say “enough” to the merely material then life to be truly meaningful and sustainable.

The day will come to face the sheer tonnage of the garbage we throw out.

a. Consumers’ tendency is to shop till they get exhausted or tired.

b. Consumers have a right to the basic material requirements for a life of dignity. One should turn to the commodities which is very much. required to make their life simple and meaningful.

c. The writer says this never-ending shopping will buy only superfluous things that destroy ones’ soul. .

The only way to restore sanity is for local communities, co-operatives, civil societies and democratic governments everywhere to take back the autonomy and initiative for their own development which they recently traded away to the giant global business corporation.

There is now a great need to re-awaken the numerous enabling spiritualities and wisdom traditions of the various people of the world.

The price paid in ecological terms will make it the most suicidal enterprise the human race has ever embarked upon.

(a) I left him convinced he was a foo.

1. Yes. I do share the concerns of the writer. 

2. We need not mindlessly ape the West. 

3. choice is not the most wonderful thing about any product. 

4. Other concerns like eco-friendliness, bio-degradability, the personal need should matter. 

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Yes, I share the concerns raised by the writer here. Consumerism has reached a level which is totally mindless and selfdestructive. Consumerism is due to the vast expansion of industries and markets. It is directly a consequence of Western influence. Though we need to benefit from the improvements in science and technology, we need not mindlessly ape the West. A wide variety in consumables is not a desirable thing if it is to only provide more choice to the consumer. Often choice can lead to confusion and unnecessary waste of time, effort and money. The other aspects of a consumable like eco-friendliness, its bio-degradability and personal need for the product are more important.

Pepsi and Coca-cola are sold in the remotest corner of the world.

(a) Yes.

(b) Tin food, junk food, burger, ice-cream, bakery products which we use at home are not absolutely essential for health and happiness.

The aim of the advertisement is to make money.

In the writer’s opinion, shopping has become more than a need.

The US returned Indian dreamt that even we should have more than 83 different flavors of ice-cream to choose from, like in America.

The roller coaster which made its appearance in 1884 in amusement parks is still one of the most exciting rides.

A restaurant becomes a five-star restaurant when its superior standards of quality in food and service are consistently maintained.

Choice thrills the present day Indian shoppers.

1. Consumerism 

2. Merchandise 

3. Global Economy 

4. International trade 

5. Commodities / Goods

A man. with a nasal voice who mistakenly thought a fat woman was ‘ pregnant, startled her by shoving her into a car.

Someone said that history is just a record of dates and battles, which ignores its significance, making history merely a list of selected events.

It is a widely known fact that the earth’s climate is changing rapidly.

He tells me that he distrusts his own sons, which is difficult to understand.

A cottage and his wife were lucky as they had a hen which laid a golden egg every day.

If there is no cake and if there are no friends, his birthday on 4 January cannot really be fun.

Walden Pond which is now the site of many tourist stands was once admired by Henry David Thoreau who built himself a solitary hut on its shore where he lived for two and a half years.