I've seen this van/minibus earlier, but I got the opportunity to take this picture today as we were waiting for the lights to go green at the intersection of St. Mark's and Residency roads.
What do I take this to mean? Are shopping malls the new tourist attractions of this city? While we are slowly turning more and more consumerist, have we really descended to the stage where we need buses to go mall-hopping to satisfy our wallet-lightening craze?
A bigger question - and this may probably be looked upon by some as the increasing purchasing power of the middle and lower-middle classes - are shopping malls now more than what they once were? The exclusive "hang-out" places of the well-heeled?
Sometimes it's nice to know nothing about the subject of a photograph. One is free to draw whatever interpretation that catches one's fancy.
2 comments:
So you haven't seen the "Hospital Special" then!
No. What purpose do these "specials" solve, anyway?
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