Thursday, May 8, 2008

Why Gurgaon malls outdo American ones??













Gurgaon in Haryana is full of amazing landscape, colorful buildings, illuminated malls, buzzling crowd places, 6 lane highways - a new mall India. In fact Guragon, Noida top the real estate and have overtaken Bangalore too.

This article appeared in Time Magazine on May 8, 2008 describing Sahara Mall in Gurgaon

It looks like Gurgaon Mall Culture outdoes American ones. I can judge only after seeing all selected malls across the US. However looking at videos, description in wikipedia and my dad's description I am enthralled.

Here's a quick look:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1009028.cms

This website is a central website to all Gurgaon Malls

Here's youtube videos of the mall

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vdYFhfnILtw

Here's the list of malls in Gurgaon:
  • DLF City Centre
  • DLF Grand Mall
  • Galaxy Mall
  • MGF Mega City Mall
  • MGF Metropolitan Mall
  • Sahara Mall
  • Mall of India
  • Raheja Mall
  • Gold Souk
  • MGF Plaza
  • Marriage Mall
  • DLF Mega Mall[6]
  • DLF Star Mall[7]
  • Mall of India
  • SRS Mall[8]
  • The Wedding Mall Gurgaon
  • The ARDEE Mall
  • Ambience Mall
  • Vishal Mega Mart
  • Gurgaon Metropolitan Mall
  • Mega Mall Gurgaon
  • Senior Mall
  • Senior Auto Mall Gurgaon
  • Scottish Mall Gurgaon
  • Ansal Plaza Palam Vihar, Gurgaon
  • House2Home Gurgaon
  • Omaxe Plaza Gurgaon
  • Gurgaon Mall Gurgaon
  • Gurgaon Central
The list is not anyways spectacular compared to large numbers in other major cities. Going by wikipedia description,

"The culture in Gurgaon is quite different from other parts of India. Most Gurgaonoans go to shopping malls everyday and watch a movie every two weeks. The average eating out average stands at 3.7 time a week higher than the national average of 1.89. The creme of Delhi move to Gurgaon causing a very high standard of life being formed in Gurgaon."

Here's article stating Gurgaon will build FOUR 140 storey buildings...Now I get why real estate is so high here. So too is the crime rate. The administration is completely looked after by IAS Officers.

9 comments:

RisingCitizen said...

Seena wrote:
Yes! the malls look just like the ones in US - actually better looking I should say. I have always found malls in Europe and India very contemporary unlike most malls in US that are built without much significance to looks (interior/exterior) .

Great pictures! I wish Bangalore had this many malls and roads to get to them :)

RisingCitizen said...

Swathi wrote
I think gurgaon the name, gaon(village) is not suiting the place its awesome to see new malls in such a state and if u just ask a guess with some person to name the place or Country I think no one will guess that its in India RIGHT?

Anonymous said...

My dear Seena and Swathi,

Let me bring to your attention that the beauty of a city is not measured by number of malls it houses. But by the quality of gentry. Living in Gurgaon is no less a struggle. There is no much activity to involve children and adults so all there is to do is go mall hopping. The culture is non-existent. No one in Gurgaon has time to talk to neighbour, kids don’t have time to go to parks. There are big malls and big roads that lead to them. However, the public transport or let me say safe public transport is completely unavailable. This is a good city to visit. But to stay…no no its not the greatest.

Nidhi

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