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Haadisa aik dam nahi hota

In my area, 'Dollar Shops' are a growing business. What's their way of trade? At the shop, the price of each commodity is equal to the market value of a dollar, which fluctuates between two and three hundred rupees. The commodities are household goods and stationery. Each item is priced at its perceived worth. However, the value of some is even more than the price. In effect, the buyers are trapped. They buy many items focusing on the price of a single item. But at the bill counter, the cumulative effect shocks them – the 'tyranny of small decisions'. The smallness of individual transactions encourages irrational consumer choice based on reckless instant decision-making.

As a child, I liked travelling by train, not by choice but because of sickness with travelling by bus or van. I remember how the ticketless passengers avoided the ticket checker. Some played possum, some left the seat and moved on to other cabins, and some excused themselves for being ticketless because they had to catch........

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