For a long time, I have this thought in my mind. We are becoming a society of indiscriminate buyers. Just to get few happy moments we have to buy objects. Somehow we are being encouraged to buy materials

Sitting on a cot outside her house, 40-year-old Malan is waiting for her mother to come home. She is wearing her favourite floral blouse and an ankle-length skirt. She looks at me, her face lighting up.