Raghavendra Book World

Raghavendra Book World has been sitting here in Lig 223 Aphb Colony for a good while now. It’s a bit of a squeeze inside because books tend to pile up faster than we can sell them. You walk in and the first thing you notice is that smell of old and new paper mixed together. We spend a lot of our time just organizing shelves and making sure the school kids can find their notebooks without too much trouble. Moula Ali is a busy enough area, but inside the shop, things stay relatively quiet. We have those tall metal racks that go all the way to the ceiling, and sometimes I need the ladder just to find one specific textbook someone asked for. It isn’t some big corporate bookstore where everything is perfectly categorized by a computer. We mostly know where things are by memory. If a pen doesn't work, we just swap it out. It’s a simple life, really. We open the shutters in the morning, sweep the front step, and wait for the regulars to stop by. Sometimes people just come in to browse and end up talking about the news for half an hour. We don’t mind. It keeps the day moving. By the time evening rolls around and the street lights come on in the colony, we start packing up the displays and getting ready to do it all again tomorrow.