Rocking in the Free World

Yes, all of us that live and take pride in the awesomeness and modesty of south Bangalore now don’t have to suffer the indignity of going all the way to the Forum, to Garuda Mall, to Lido Mall, or God forbid, to that horribly distant Innovative Multiplex to watch a movie.

Not just that, as an added bonus, we don’t even have to hit any of the aforementioned parts of town in order to get to a good bookstore.

True, Jayanagar does have a few bookstores that stock textbooks for all courses, but it doesn’t have a Strand, a Premier, a Crossword or a Landmarks. I wouldn’t count Sapna Book Store as a good book store per se by any stretch of imagination, for all that it would serve to, based on the type of books it stocks, is to remind me of how technically challenged I am, despite having been an engineering student for four years, and an employee of the IT industry for four more years (and counting) thereafter.

However, this too has been remedied by the unveiling of a Landmark’s bookstore within walking distance from the Jayanagar 4th block complex, in the same place that the multiplex is located at.

All this has been made possible due to the coming up of a new mall which is called the Swagath Garuda Mall, which is located where the Swagath theatre originally stood . I am not a big fan of malls, or of any other places where all the Amit_123s (and their equally arbit female couterparts) of Bangalore tend to hang out at, and unleash like nobody’s business.

But the presence of an Inox multiplex as well as a Landmarks bookstore in such close proximity to whre I live acts as a suitable anodyne to this particular predicament. My only worry is that all the HTs of South Bangalore, that live in Jayanagar, Banashankari and BTM will make a beeline for this mall and forsake their regular hang outs in favour of this newer mall.

Now if only someone would demolish the Big Bazaar in Banashankari 3rd stage and instead construct a multiplex there, it would result in removing that monstrosity from our area and put something awesome in its place. Should this ever happen, my cup of joy will surely be overflowing more than I ever imagined it could!