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mid-day special drive: How Mumbai malls treat auto and taxi drivers

<p>After a Kurla mall turned away a family that arrived in its auto, as first reported in mid-day, we conducted a special drive and put other malls to test. Here&rsquo;s what we found...</p>

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Our reporter poses as a taxi driver and drives in to SoBo Central, where he is turned away by the security guard. Pic/Datta Kumbhar
Our reporter poses as a taxi driver and drives in to SoBo Central, where he is turned away by the security guard. Pic/Datta Kumbhar

Mumbai’s malls have something for everyone, but not if you’re a rickshaw or taxi driver. Days after mid-day named and shamed a swanky mall in Kurla for refusing entry to an auto driver and his family, our reporters decided to test whether other places were similarly biased. What did we find? Turns out, quite a few malls are coloured by prejudice when it comes to our black-and-yellow drivers.

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