Thursday 21 April 2016

Reading between the times @ Old bookshops may not stand the test of time, but as the professor points out, reading will

Reading between the times

As another old bookshop is set to go obsolete,readers recall the city’s lost chapter

A former Maharashtra Governor, who participated in a friendly cricket match decades ago, stepped into the Universal Book Corporation – a tiny book store at Dhobi Talao – to buy a book on the game. His side lost and the next day he returned the copy.

There was a time when this 88-year-old outlet boasted of several such high-end clients, such as Dhirubhai Ambani, Sunil Gavaskar, Kader Khan and a royal from the Baroda family. Today, its owner SA Shroff, who has been running the family business since 1965, has the difficult task of seeing through its imminent closure.

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