a. The speaker asked such a question because he was a journalist named Rizwan. He was interviewing the other person named Kasim.
b. It affected the addresse that is Kasim because he was a hawker who survived on selling old clothes. He had no education, no skill and no land to survive on . He was dependent on his job as a cloth seller.
c. Kasim had no house, so there was no address. He lived like a tramp. Sometimes he visits his village.
d. It tells about the speaker that he was a poor person who was hungry and fear loomed in his eyes. He couldn't afford to stop a day's work as he has to earn his living. He was illiterate and unskilled and couldn't afford to stop working a day in his life. All his family memebers were sick and poor.
e. The living of the Kasim affected him very brutually. It provided him with five hundred rupees per month. He used to sell warm clothes for his living. He has lost all his hopes, he didn't remember or knows at all about the main events in the society.