Sumukha Prakashana Book House

You can find us at 174e/28 on Magadi Road. It’s a busy stretch of road and we’ve been part of it for a while. Sumukha Prakashana Book House is really just a place where we keep a lot of printed works. We do some publishing too, so there are always boxes of new pages sitting around. The smell of ink is pretty strong when you first walk in. It’s not a place where everything is perfectly lined up. We have stacks on the floor and piles on the desks. Sometimes it takes a minute to find exactly what a customer is asking for. We know where everything is, even if it looks messy to someone else. Magadi Road is always full of noise from the vehicles passing by. We sit here and wait for the regulars to stop in. Many students come by looking for specific texts. We try to keep the stock updated but things move fast. It’s a family-run thing, mostly. We handle the packing and the sales ourselves. No big teams or departments here. Just a few of us making sure the books get out to the people who need them. The building is older, so it gets a bit warm in the afternoons. We just turn on the fans and keep working. It’s a straightforward job and we like the routine of it.