“হাটে হাঁড়ি: খুচরো পাপ ও Mall -ত্যাগ ” The Vice of Retail Market and Mall-Culture

Without giving any relative importance to locally controlled (by the syndicate) illegal unorganized retail market (that disrupts government-controlled rationing system) in West Bengal and neo-colonially installed mall culture, this paper tries to show the lacunas of both the mercantile systems. In doing so, (a) the author surveyed structural patterns of both the systems; (b) used local terms to understand the local economy with a goal to eradicate fiat money-sign based economy. The author’s proposals are as follows: green economics of austerity, resource based self-sufficient economy that only encourages socially necessary labor.