Comments on: More Things to Buy in India - The Growth of a Consumer Society

By: Anne Lind

Anne Lind — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:04:48 +0000

Deirdre -
Great essay (as always) on consumer products in India. I am also traveling there now and would like to add one comment. When we lived there in the late 1970s as you did, we had to constantly plan for drinking water, needing to boil it. One of the greatest things for us now is that you can buy purified bottled water everywhere. Of course the disposal problem of all those plastic bottles is a major problem, the downside of many upsides of product availability.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:52:07 +0000

Amazing transformation! I just hope all that packaging is biodegradable.

By: Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy

Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:20:51 +0000

Beautiful pictures and colors, and I’m really enjoying your perspective on how much the country has changed. Since I just went there for the first time, it’s hard to tell what’s progress / globalization / improvements and what’s changed.