Madeena Deeni Book Center

Madeena Deeni Book Center is located on Modi Road in DJ Halli. This part of Devarjeevanahalli is always moving. There’s a lot of noise from the street, auto-rickshaws honking and people shouting. Our shop is right in the thick of it. We have books stacked from the floor up. Most of them are for the local community here. We spend our days rearranging the piles because people are always browsing and moving things around. The floor is concrete and we have one small fan that tries its best in the summer heat. It’s not a big place but we make it work. We get new stock every week and sometimes it just sits in bundles on the floor for a few days until we have time to put it away. People come in asking for specific things and we usually know exactly which pile it’s in. We don’t have fancy displays or anything like that. Just books on shelves and in boxes. It’s been this way for a long time. The address is a bit confusing because people spell Devarjeevanahalli in different ways but we are easy to find once you are on Modi Road. We open up early in the morning and the first thing we do is sweep the dust off the front step. It is a simple life and we are happy to be serving the people who live around this neighborhood.