Saturday, February 10, 2007

Secret liaisons@Rs 150

Nice investigation by the Mumbai Mirror on  The sad truth and reality about how the space crunch is impacting couples & how restaurants are converting their lofts into quickie joints.

It may look like every restaurant you stop by for a quick snack and fruit juice, but these joints sell something more — a surreptitious place for those looking for one. A small cubicle lit by a dim bulb, containing a fan and a bench on the mezzanine floor gets these outlets more money than their fast food business downstairs. Mirror reporters Dippy Vankani and Rashmi Rajput pose as a couple to find how much secrecy costs in our city