One of the few pavements in Delhi where Maradona, Chambers Dictionary and Jigsaw Puzzle can be found on the same shelf. I still remember how annoyed my nephews were with me that I just brought this picture home rather than the Maradona book itself. And it was almost two years back that I went there! About time I headed that way once more.
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Sidhu, you should and go in a cooler month or it gets too hot in the afternoon.
I haven’t been there so far. Seems like I should go soon…:)
Cuckoo, I too have not been there in two years in spite of being in Gurgaon
Priyank, that is sad. But did the market surface some place else?Wanderer, you should write about it. When did you go there last?
I always wanted to write some thing about this market. This is the place from where I used to get all my stuff cos it was never affordable for me to buy new books, it is really a scene spotting so many teenagers and oldies (and of course some in between)squatting on the pavements and …?….. the heaps.
There was a similar book street in Mumbai. That place was crazy! It was bigger than any of the bookstores i ever saw.Unfortunately, in late 2005, the high court ordered to clear the pavements of these booksellers. I have a story here: Demise of book streetThe book street has shifted somewhere else, secret location!!
Daryaganj is THE place for all types of books. Once in Delhi, any book lover would want to go there at least once. But I am not able to do that.