Read the passage and answer the questions given below it.
The lane behind Khari Baoli, in Old Delhi, is too narrow for a rickshaw to turn, and for thirty years that suited Ramesh Lal. He fried bedmi puris with potato curry for porters and shopkeepers who ate standing up, paid twenty rupees and went back to work. Then, last year, a food vlogger filmed him flipping a puri high off the ladle and back into the oil. The clip called his stall a hidden gem. Within a week, two million people had seen the hidden gem.
It is hard to begrudge Ramesh what followed. He now sells out by noon instead of four, has bought a second kadhai and has paid off an old loan. Back-lane stalls rarely get a second chance at anything.
Yet the crowd at his counter is not quite a crowd of eaters. Half of it holds phones at arm’s length, waiting to film the same flip from the same angle, and plates are often left half full once the shot is done. The porters who kept Ramesh going through thirty winters are now conspicuous by their absence. With no room to stand, several have moved to a stall two lanes away. His price is now forty rupees, partly because oil costs more and partly because visitors pay without a second look.
None of this makes the vloggers villains. They brought Ramesh customers he could never have found alone, and most seem truly fond of the food they film. But attention of this kind moves on to the next lane with a story. When it does, Ramesh will need the porters again, and it is not clear they will return.
Which of the following statements are NOT true according to the passage?
(A) Ramesh now runs out of food earlier in the day than he used to.
(B) The writer holds the vloggers to blame for driving the porters away.
(C) Ramesh raised his price only because visitors were willing to pay more.
(D) Some of the stall’s old customers now eat at another stall nearby.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (B) and (C) only
The question asks for the statements that are NOT true.
(A) Ramesh now runs out of food earlier in the day than he used to. — True.
- The passage says he “sells out by noon instead of four”.
(B) The writer holds the vloggers to blame for driving the porters away. — Not true.
- The writer says, “None of this makes the vloggers villains.”
(C) Ramesh raised his price only because visitors were willing to pay more. — Not true.
- The price went up “partly because oil costs more” as well.
- So there were two reasons, not one.
(D) Some of the stall’s old customers now eat at another stall nearby. — True.
- Several porters “have moved to a stall two lanes away”.