In this hub of second-hand bookstores in Kolkata, the booksellers are running out of stories to tell

A walk down Gariahat Road reveals a once-cherished home for books is dwindling away.

Chandni Doulatramani

· Dec 02, 2018 · 08:30 am

Pune’s Sophia Book Store: The bookshop with heart that could (so it did) become successful

Surekha Sharma started her bookshop against all odds, with just 10 used books.

Damini Kulkarni

· Jun 10, 2018 · 12:30 pm

The Strand Book Stall is closing but it leaves behind thousands of readers connected by its books

A writer says goodbye to the bookshop that marked the passage of his life, as it shuts down today, February 28, 2018.

Imran Ali Khan

· Feb 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

In a bookshop in Gurgaon, a Rs 13,500-copy of ‘Don Quixote’ sets the tone for what to expect

Chapter 101 is a space where collectors of rare books can spend their entire lives.

Amish Raj Mulmi

· Sep 28, 2017 · 08:30 am

‘It’s not just Church Street’: In Bengaluru, these three Kannada bookshops have their own identities

Because Kannada writers are stars in their own right, with a wide readership.

Satyavrat KK

· Sep 23, 2017 · 12:30 pm

What three second-hand bookshops on the same street say about Bengaluru’s reading culture

Blossoms, Bookworm, Select. All within a stone’s throw of one another. How does the city nurture them?

Satyavrat KK

· Sep 16, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Remembering Anil Arora, whose Delhi bookshop Bookworm lives on in every book-lover

The bookshop owner who gave thousands of Delhi bookworms their daily reading has died.

Vatsala Kaul Banerjee

· Aug 13, 2016 · 05:30 pm

You can run a bookshop if you rent this Airbnb flat (in Scotland, though)

The Open Book is your bookshop-running dream come true

Scroll Staff

· Jul 02, 2016 · 10:30 am

Sikkim’s own independent bookstore is a hotspot for culture

At Rachna Stores in Gangtok, writers, musicians and bakers are as ubiquitous as books.

Anuradha Sharma

· May 07, 2016 · 11:30 am

Have you met Chennai’s greatest bookseller with the smallest bookshop?

Nalini Chettur could well be called the first lady of Connemara for the bookstore she runs there.

Geeta Doctor

· Apr 03, 2016 · 12:30 pm

How Mumbai’s Leftist bookshop and printing press are keeping the red flag fluttering

Lokvangmay Griha and People’s Book House are meeting the needs of a city yearning for alternate literature.

Khorshed Deboo

· Mar 19, 2016 · 08:30 am

If there’s a heaven, it’s just opened its first independent bookshop

If you believe in an afterlife, you have to believe that these three pioneering booksellers have set up shop together.

Aanchal Malhotra

· Mar 16, 2016 · 08:30 am