1. Weekly haats as a popular culture
• Weekly haats shares a mix culture of practices which most importantly intermix traditional
rural culture with the urban population and their practices.
• Diversity among the buyers make it so much fun as their reaction on the available goods and
prices of the goods is a thing to watch.
• The sellers in a specific market are sometimes from a fixed community so people get a chance
to know about their practices and culture which further results in understanding of communities
which is a necessity in a diverse nation like India.
• The artisans who are showcasing at the Bazaar offer crafts and handlooms in a number of
materials, this artisans are mainly from urban UP and BIHAR so people get a chance to know
about the art of this talented artisans.
• This creates a great respect among the urban class for the fellows of this states, which result in inter-state or
Inter-regional respect and combines the rural north India with pure urban South delhi for example.
• In the weekly haats we can clearly observe the set of practices, beliefs and objects that embody the most
broadly shared meanings of a social system
2. WEEKLY HAATS VS Mall culture
• the basic difference between weekly haats and malls is price of the commodities which
determines the people who can go their and buy goods freely
• *the population which can go in the malls because of class is very low when compared
with the haats, the fundamental reason is class divide.
• *on the other hand the availability and diversity of goods Availiable in haats are nowhere
near to that of malls, the social structure in haats is old school whereas in the malls the
main concentration is of branded shops which increased rapidly after the globalisation.
3. • *there is very less diversity among the owners of shops in mall, the
atmosphere is dominated by specific class not all can afford the goods and
there is no Intermixing of rural-urban or inter-state cultures which can be
evidently seen in haats..
• *there is no doubt that mall culture affects the economy in positive way
but the question is about significance of diversity and masses which have
arts like handicraft goods and the respect for rural talent..
• *One negative impact of mall culture in India is the fact that it is causing
smaller businesses like haats shopkeepers to struggle as they try to
compete with the bigger ones located within the malls, another
