Uma calls it "a harmless enough piece", but I call it vile and despicable. And condescending.

Here's a particularly nasty bit:

It was the fear of real Indians (empahsis mine) that had made one mall in central Mumbai introduce a system of requiring visitors to show their credit cards to prove their purchasing power. But as such discriminating moves invited public scorn, malls were forced to lower all defences and take the trampling tours of India’s poor...


So journalistic excellence (TOI ishtyle) is to make fun of your fellow countrymen/women whose yearly income can't buy most of the products in a typical mall and come up with the descriptor "real Indians" to describe them. Swell.

And what's wrong with poking fun at high prices?