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CAT/1998
Question . 24
Directions for Questions: Read the information in each question given below and answer the question that follows:
From Cochin to Shimla, the new culture vultures are tearing down acres of India’s architectural treasures. Ancestral owners often fobbed off with a few hundred rupees for an exquisitely carved door or window, which fetches fifty times that much from foreign dealers, and yet more from the drawing-room sophisticates of Europe and the US. The reason for such shameless rape of the Indian architectural wealth can perhaps, not wrongly, be attributed to the unfortunate blend of activist disunity and local indifference.
It can be inferred from the above passage that
Explanatory Answer
Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Critical Reasoning question
The passage clearly talks about India’s losing architectural wealth. It clearly says that foreigners are interested in our artifacts and the greed of foreign currency forces the localities to sell it off easily. The use of ‘shameless rape’ clearly shows that Indians are not proud of their cultural heritage.
Thus option b.