Star City Mall — Local services in Delhi

Star City Mall in Mayur Vihar, a symbol of local pride, isn't known for shopping but for its density of liquor stores. The author's nostalgia for the mall is challenged by claims of an ancient structure beneath it, raising concerns about its potential demolition. The author argues for appreciating the present, regardless of what lies buri Star City Mall is the pride of East Delhi's Mayur Vihar. In fact, it's the pride of East Delhi without most people living in Yamnapaar thinking of it as such. (Ask any resident of Paris' 7th arrondissement of what they think of the Eiffel Tower and you'll get the picture.)As a shopping mall, it's not quite Milan's Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. In fact, with no department store, there's not much to shop at Star City. There's no cineplex either, although a travelling circus does pitch its tent in the hardscrabble field behind it from time to time when AQI levels and India's precarious circus economy permit.SCM's 40,000 sq ft of atrium space, out of a total area of 2.5 lakh sq ft, was once touted to house the biggest Reliance supermarket in Delhi-NCR. Didn't take off. An HDFC Bank branch still conducts business as if it's a Chase Manhattan branch on the Upper West Side that never got the memo about being gobbled up by JPMorgan 24 years ago.But today, SCM's singular USP lies in the plethora of liquor shops it contains, arguably the highest per sq ft density in the country. Thoughtfully, it even has one store exclusively for women. While not quite abuzz with life as it was till the early 2010s, its cheek-by-jowl private liquor stores, ancillary namkeen-chips-cold drinks shops, few functional ATMs, one CCD outlet, and idiosyncratic escalators make it a...

This was is osm place for alcohol lover price is so nominal please visit this place

This article discusses attempts at alcohol law reform in New Zealand between 2008 and 2017. First, it describes a major review of alcohol by the New Zealand Law Commission, headed by Sir Geoffrey Palmer, who had overseen liberalisation of alcohol regulation 25 years earlier. The main recommendations of the commission’s final report featured progressive reform of the alcohol laws regulating marketing, price, accessibility and age of purchase. Second, it outlines the response to the commission’s report by the Nationalled government, including an Alcohol Reform Bill that ignored the key recommendations of the commission. This ‘non-reform’ bill was the outcome of a political process of obfuscation, delay and inaction led by then prime minister, John Key. Third, the article describes the factors that have contributed to the lack of effective alcohol law reform, despite the review and high public support for change over the past decade. We conclude that ‘the love of money’ is at the heart of the barriers to change. Finally, we propose three main policies that would make a significant difference to reducing alcohol-related harm in New Zealand and suggest how these could...

As a fallout of AAP's liquor policy fiasco / corruption you are forced to buy substandard brands of beers and other spirits. You don't get to buy Kingfisher premier / lager / mild anymore. Though once in a while you may get introduced to something really good like Beor 360 - an Indian brand of beer manufactured in Bhutan.

Most of the liquor shops have turned into cheap bars, where you'll never find a hep crowd - no young people - mostly salesman looking for a break from a back-breaking day.

Ground floor is full of liquor shops, bar & restaurant, a few massage and curios shops. The upper floors have sales and marketing offices, service centres of Apple, etc., and above all the Kaplan.

I wonder why professionals like lawyers, accountants, and consultants have not opened their offices yet, in these buildings, despite having two Five Star hotels nearby and this place being right on the intersection of roads to New Delhi, South Delhi, Central Delhi, East Delhi, Ghaziabad and Noida; as well as blue and pink lines of the...