Dheeraj Pusthak Bhandar

Dheeraj Pusthak Bhandar is our little book shop in the Main Market near the Delhi GPO. The exact spot is B 1372. If you walk through the market, you will see us among all the other stalls and shops. We have stacks of books and papers everywhere. It’s not the kind of place where everything is perfectly organized on shiny shelves. It’s a real shop where you might have to dig a bit to find what you want. We carry all sorts of things, mostly what people in the area need for their daily work or studies. Being near the GPO means we get a lot of people passing by on their way to mail letters or packages. We’ve been here for a long time, and the shop has a certain smell of old paper that I really like. The fans hum overhead, and there’s always the sound of people bargaining outside in the street. We don't do any big advertising. People just know we are here at B 1372. We open early and stay until the market starts to thin out in the evening. It’s a busy life, but it’s good. My family has been involved in this for years. We aren't trying to compete with the big online stores. We just want to provide books and stationery to the people who walk into our shop every day. It’s a simple, honest business in a very old part of Delhi. We just take things one day at a time.