Mall Culture means Rendezvous - A Contemplation ‘What if you could do magic’? ‘What if you could suddenly give everyone everything they wanted’? ‘Can you resist on the wanting, new cars, new clothes, new CDs, new stereos, new appliances and amusements, new gadgets and gizmos with the ceaseless, endless agony of stuff’? What if you could give everyone what he or she wanted, make everyone pleased and end the wanting? What would happen? The answer, of course, is simple. Life, as we know it would end. Without the wanting, there would be no malls, no factories or design studios working feverishly to replace one hot item with the next, none of the associated jobs. People have to be unhappy for our way of life to continue. For if we didn't ceaselessly want new things, there would be little to sell about. Going to malls means joining a small group of similarly aged young people that would converge with other convening groups into an amoeboid mass which would then roam the corridors...
यह ब्लॉग साहित्य, संस्मरण, व्यंग्य, कविता, सामाजिक चिंतन और सांस्कृतिक विरासत का संग्रह है। यहाँ अखिलेश जोशी ‘अनपढ़’ की मौलिक रचनाओं के साथ-साथ उनके पितामह, स्वर्गीय श्रीकृष्ण जोशी ‘नक़्शे नवीस’ की दुर्लभ एवं अप्रकाशित साहित्यिक कृतियाँ भी प्रस्तुत हैं। यह मंच अतीत और वर्तमान के संवाद, जीवनानुभवों, मानवीय मूल्यों तथा भारतीय सांस्कृतिक चेतना को संरक्षित और साझा करने का एक विनम्र प्रयास है।