Manjunatha Book Centre

I’ve been running Manjunatha Book Centre for quite some time now over in Chamrajpet. We are located at number 6, right near the Bata shoe showroom at Prem Lok Park. It’s a busy spot but easy enough to find if you know where the shoe shop is. Most days I’m here early setting things out on the racks. We mostly keep school books, notebooks, and all the usual pens and pencils people need. Sometimes people come in looking for specific things for their kids' classes and we try to have those ready on the shelves. The shop isn't huge, so things are piled up a bit, but that's how we manage the space we have. I started this because I like being around books and the neighborhood is familiar to me. We get a lot of locals walking by on their way to the market or the bus stop. It gets a bit crowded during the start of the school term, as you can imagine. We just try to keep the basics in stock so people don't have to travel too far into the main city for a simple eraser or a guide book. If you are walking around Prem Lok Park, you’ll see our sign. It's a simple setup, nothing fancy at all. We don't have a big staff, usually just me or one other person helping out with the billing. We know most of the faces that come through the door by now. That's just how it goes here in this part of town. We keep the lights on until evening every day.