The bright blue tarp stretched over the makeshift stall at Azad Maidan houses Ashish Book Centre, a fixture for students and researchers in Mumbai. While most bookstores occupy brick and mortar spaces, this one operates entirely within the public park grounds. Generations of college students have come here to track down rare, out of print textbooks that sit stacked in dusty, floor to ceiling piles. The shopkeeper knows exactly which crate holds a specific engineering manual or obscure history volume buried somewhere in the stacks.
Ashish Book Centre / Golden minds publishing house
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