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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