Shanti Book Centre

We are located in Krupa Apartment, which sits right between Kothrud and the Deccan Gymkhana area. The shop is full of books, probably more than we have room for. They are stacked on the shelves and sometimes even on the floor in the corners. It has that old paper smell that you only get in places like this. We have school books, some novels, and a lot of notebooks that students from the colleges nearby come to buy. It gets really crowded in the evenings when the classes let out. We don't have a computer system to find everything, so we usually just know where a book is by looking at the piles. Sometimes a customer asks for something we haven't seen in months, and we have to go digging through the back. The lighting isn't the brightest, but it works for reading the titles. We have a small counter where we wrap the books in brown paper if someone asks. It’s a quiet place mostly, except for the sound of the ceiling fan and people whispering while they look through the rows. We like it this way. It’s a simple bookstore for people who actually want to read or study. We don't sell fancy gadgets or toys, just books and the occasional pen or pencil. We’ve been in this building for quite a long time now and the locals know us.