As scheduled there was an interactive meeting on 10 July. It was houseful and quite enlightening. Bsically there were two views expressed. One was the counsel of despair and that it is too late in the day to do anything while majority of others argued for taking the judiciary route to stall the ill considered move to build a mall. Already Arun Kumar has taken up the issue with the high court which boomranged and it is proposed to appeal to the Supreme Court. He gave the lurid details of the extent of loot and the scam. Certianly quite few must have lined their pockets to surfeit. Though all the previous 65 corporators were invited as well as some Mayors nobody turned up except for three who held important positions in the corporation in earlier years who spoke giving the history of Makkaji Chowk. Even here they were only saying that nothing much can be done. Bhamy Shenoi had made an economic analysis on some broad assumptions according to which the MCC was badly losing. Earlier the school of design presented few good alternatives. I also spoke and reiterated what I had mentioned earlier and added an additional point that if the mall comes the traders in Devaraja marked area would have to down their shutters as the people would head for the mall who will certainly sell cheaper than any retailer. This has been proved both in Delhi and Mumbai making the residential traders fast becoming an extinct species. The logic for malls to sell cheaper is that they bank on bulk sales with small margin of profit. Once people accustomed to razzle dazzle of mall environment they will not chuck it even if the prices are raised.Of course one of the corporators said that Mysore people have not much money unlike Bangaloreans  and the Maveric enterprise will have to fold their business. It is shorn of logic with many IT shops being set up and peopel will certinly prefer to purchase in Mysore rather than go through hell in commuting in Bangalore till of course Mysore also becomes  By then the enterprise will have made its money.