Delhi extends its shopping hours from 7 to 11pm to please its consumption-conscious citizens. But no government should restrict shopping hours in the first place. It smacks of the labor protectionism of France and Germany, where shopping hours are inconvenient.

Separately, Delhi has a late-night crime problem:

[T]here are others who think extending shopping hours in a city which remains extremely unsafe for women is an unwise move… “We have decided that women will work till 2000 hours and then the men will take over. We will not force our women to work late… But if we can make arrangements for them to travel late, and they want to work late, we’ll welcome it.”